tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77714872015-07-31T06:10:44.090-04:00Adventures in AutismNews and commentary on the autism epidemic and my beautiful boy who is living with autism.Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.comBlogger1348125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-55769294141771587972015-06-18T17:20:00.001-04:002015-06-18T17:20:42.517-04:00Late Annual Birthday Fundraiser This Year<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-noxmSd30hJE/VYM0NMJ928I/AAAAAAAAA7o/xhMx6jqccmo/s1600/tips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="284" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-noxmSd30hJE/VYM0NMJ928I/AAAAAAAAA7o/xhMx6jqccmo/s320/tips.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>So usually every year on my birthday in January I put out the tip jar and ask that if I have been of service to you in any way in the past year, that you consider lightening my financial burden with a few of those dollars that are so popular with so many people now a days.<br /><br />But this year we took off running with our hair on fire Jan 1 when Pharma fired a starting pistol and sent everyone racing after our vaccine exemptions, and all other life kinda halted. &nbsp;Including the other paid work I usually do.<br /><br />So now it is June and the coffers are dry and the bank is still insisting that we pay the mortgage and I checked to see if they would take facebook likes and twitter RTs instead of federal reserve notes, but apparently they are not quite that far into the digital economy yet. &nbsp;(They really need to step into the internet age.)<br /><br />So, if my work this year has been of service to you in any way, please tip your advocate.</div><div><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><input alt="PayPal - 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(NYSE:MRK) EVP Julie L. Gerberding</a> sold 38,368 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $60.99, for a total transaction of $2,340,064.32. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 31,985 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,950,765.15. "Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-90323490608608644272015-05-02T17:57:00.002-04:002015-05-02T17:57:45.055-04:00DON'T DO IT, ALICE!!! GO BACK TO THE GARDEN PARTY!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vaccinetable.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VbckAKBPwe8/VUVHsXLygyI/AAAAAAAAA4E/HXZJOKe1hKM/s640/rabbitholeenc.fw.png" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Any artists out there? I need a picture of Alice after being in Wonderland for about a decade. Fat, bitter, barely sane, cigar in one hand as she pours whisky into a tea cup with the other.</div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-71754212393532289322015-05-01T14:15:00.002-04:002015-05-01T14:24:02.237-04:00Dear Susan...<div class="separator tr_bq" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zHrxYoqHh1k/VUPCb8yEPYI/AAAAAAAAA3w/A3SqyDVPmeU/s1600/Locura%2B000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zHrxYoqHh1k/VUPCb8yEPYI/AAAAAAAAA3w/A3SqyDVPmeU/s320/Locura%2B000.jpg" width="261" /></a></div>I am offically loosing it. <br /><br />I just vented at one of my mom's oldest friends. Known her since I was in 7th grade. Love her... she is a good woman who has endured great hardship with admirable grace and faith in God.<br /><br />Long story short..<br /><br />Mom: "Susan just had a grandbaby, send vaccine info"<br />Me: "Sending basic Hep B birth series info."<br />Susan: "Polio is bad."<br />Me: "Susan, take this seriously, you are pissing me off."<br />Susan, "I don't know why you are offended. I know how hard you work on autism awareness."<br /><br />And then I lost my shit. A decade of watching baby after baby after baby after baby fall... and not being able to stop it. Sometimes I think I will end up being a crazy woman who starts screaming on a street corner one day and never stops.<br /><br />My email to Susan (not her real name) that could be sent to any grandparent in this country.<br /><br /><blockquote>Susan,<br /><br />I am offended because because you don't seem to be taking this matter seriously. I don't know how else to explain it.<br /><br />Vaccine safety in abysmal in this country, half of our kids are suffering from chronic illness, and no matter how much mainstream research and government information I give to people, few seem to get that their tiny babies are in danger of life long damage and illness because their families are blindly participating in the most corrupt program in medicine.<br /><br />I am offended because I don't do any work for "autism awareness." I hate "autism awareness." "Autism Awareness" month is something that we survive, not appreciate. "Autism Awareness" is a propaganda campaign that hurts families that have a child with and autism diagnosis, and prevents them from getting proper medical care. You have heard of "pink washing" yes? Well "autism awareness" is blue washing. Today is May 1st and my fb feed is full of "Thank God that *&amp;%$#&amp; month is finally over," messages from "autism" moms. And the fact that you can be reading my mothers posts for years and think that I support "autism awareness" work makes me want to bang my head on the wall, and burst into tears. The fact that I can spend a decade of my life trying to communicate serious medical risk issues, only to see that smart people are hearing that I am trying to work on "autism awareness" while their children get sicker and sicker has turned me into someone that struggles with very deep anger on a daily basis.<br /><br />So I will try one more time to make you understand what I am trying to communicate to you.<br /><br />Susan... there really is no such thing as "autism." There are no kids with "autism," there are only children with an autism diagnosis. A diagnosis of autism is merely a description of behaviors that has no connection to anything in hard science. Forget "autism" exists, it is just an archaic term used by a Doctor at Johns Hopkins in 1943 to describe something he had never seen before. What is happening in the modern western world is that children are undergoing an extreme assault of manufactured chemicals from the moment of conception, that is such a radical departure from our entire evolutionary history going back to The Garden, that the entire generation of children is sick and neurologically damaged. Kids with an "autism" diagnosis are just a subset of those chemically/metabolically injured children who have some behaviors in common, but often have vastly different medical pictures and biological syndromes that are causing the behaviors.<br /><br />My testimony to you is that modern medicine (and food) is destroying the health of our children, and then refusing to treat them.<br /><br />More than HALF of all US children are chronically ill and developmentally delayed. There was nothing like this when I was a child. <a href="http://www.academicpedsjnl.net/…/S1876-2859(10)002…/abstract">http://www.academicpedsjnl.net/…/S1876-2859(10)002…/abstract</a> (and that does not include things like pediatric cancers and SIDS) The current threat to your grandchildren in the 21st century is NOT short term, treatable communicable disease. It is life long autoimmunity and brain damage. If they are following mainstream medical protocols, odds are that half of your grandchildren will end up with the disorders on this list. Please read the list carefully. Please keep in mind that 18% of children in this country now are developmentally delayed or disabled.<br /><br />Vaccines are but one source of this chemical assault, but they are likely the largest part for most children.<br /><br />I am "offended" because I see you blowing off the information I sent you, and because I know there is a fifty/fifty shot that I will get an email from my mother in three years that says, "Susan McLean's grandchild was just diagnosed with insert neuroimmune disorder here and their doctors have not been able to find anything to help them. Where can I send her?" And my day will be spent looking for alt med resources that you guys can access locally (or fly half way across the country for depending on where baby is), and pay tens (or hundreds like our family) of thousands of dollars for out of pocket, because you didn't take the time to just read the literature I sent and do a basic risk benefit analysis on that specific child.<br /><br />So if you want me not to be "offended" then please just read what I have sent you. Take a weekend, read through the links completely, and if you think that they are of no use to your family and that I am some version of a crazy person after that, then that is totally fine with me. I have resigned myself to the fact that most of the people in my old life will go to their graves believing I am. But I am loosing my damn mind watching child after child being pushed off the chemical cliff as I scream at the top of my lungs from the bottom of the cavern for parents to stop following us on the path that has destroyed our children.<br /><br />Please do the research.<br /><br />Ginger Taylor, MS</blockquote>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-7778814262156087672015-04-18T23:05:00.000-04:002015-04-25T12:42:47.653-04:00Surgeon General Uses Elmo to Sell Vaccines to Minors<a href="http://www.caru.org/guidelines/guidelines.pdf" target="_blank">It is unethical to market pharmaceuticals to children</a>. <br /><br />It is unethical to market pharmaceuticals to children.<br /><br />Children cannot make informed consent decisions, so it is unethical to market pharmaceuticals to children.<br /><br />But that is what the Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA is doing. &nbsp;And his target audience is three and a half year olds. While not so subtlety taunting those who are resistant to vaccinating.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/viS1ps0r4K0" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />The Surgeon General met with Elmo, a three and a half year old monster, to tell him that vaccines are safe. &nbsp;I guess he didn't feel that a three and a half year old would understand what it meant if he said that vaccines were legally classified as "<a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf" target="_blank">unavoidably unsafe</a>," so that makes it OK to lie to him?<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZpOHIzkLP-g" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />Elmo apparently believes the unethical government propaganda targeted at the the three and a half year old monster, as he shows up to the doctors office to get a shot. &nbsp;Note that neither Elmo or his legal guardians are given the CDC Vaccine Information Sheet that the nurse is required by law to give him or his parents before a vaccine is administered. How will Elmo know that the adverse outcomes of some vaccines include seizures, coma, paralysis, brain damage and death? &nbsp;What about Elmo's right to free, prior and informed consent? &nbsp; Did they even ask his parents any questions to screen for potential vaccine reactions? <br /><br />No need... "vaccines are safe," &nbsp;right?<br /><br />One parent whose child has had some very severe adverse reactions was a bit concerned about this turn of events, so she decided to check in on Elmo and this is what she found:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_eBf6l0TH7M/VTMWFdZ2MBI/AAAAAAAAA1k/R7YWgTvNdR0/s1600/0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_eBf6l0TH7M/VTMWFdZ2MBI/AAAAAAAAA1k/R7YWgTvNdR0/s1600/0.jpg" height="206" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IPxOg5RTOmc/VTMWKtqT2_I/AAAAAAAAA1s/Lj4SwONyH_8/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IPxOg5RTOmc/VTMWKtqT2_I/AAAAAAAAA1s/Lj4SwONyH_8/s1600/1.jpg" height="320" width="318" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l9xFOeUphg0/VTMWSjb1MFI/AAAAAAAAA14/xAbSTPB4cxk/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XJgS2HoYOjU/VTMZs9W34fI/AAAAAAAAA3A/fX2d42iT2Z0/s1600/11.jpg" height="320" width="318" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-onsURkddCZ0/VTMZ7sW6QpI/AAAAAAAAA3I/ts3KlUHJDrU/s1600/12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-onsURkddCZ0/VTMZ7sW6QpI/AAAAAAAAA3I/ts3KlUHJDrU/s1600/12.jpg" height="320" width="318" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kgp83QILm6I/VTMZ9F6CxLI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/ryX0xkRQjeA/s1600/13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kgp83QILm6I/VTMZ9F6CxLI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/ryX0xkRQjeA/s1600/13.jpg" height="320" width="318" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Oh <i>THAT'S </i>why some people don't vaccinate! &nbsp;Thanks for the lesson Elmo!<br /><br /><br /><br />And now here's a baby with a vaccine induced seizure disorder. &nbsp;She had 16 of them that day.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pdJx3MzPBtw" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />It is unethical to market pharmaceuticals to children.<br /><br />You can remind the Surgeon General of that inconvenient fact at:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/USSurgeonGeneral">https://www.facebook.com/USSurgeonGeneral</a><br /><br />and<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General">https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General</a><br /><br /><br />Update:<br /><br />My comment to Murthy on his hew fb page:<br /><br />"Elmo has an excuse for believing that vaccines are "safe" and can "keep you healthy." He is only three years old. You on the other hand are a responsible grown up and an MD and THE top public health official and should know that vaccines are legally classified as "unavoidably unsafe" per the US Supreme Court, and can cause serious adverse out comes including seizures, coma, paralysis, brain damage and death in some people.<br /><br />http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf<br /><br />Remove this unethical video. It defines propaganda to children. Three year olds are not able to participate in informed consent in medical decision making and it is UNETHICAL to direct marketing messages to them.<br /><br />Further, there is an upsetting irony to this particular piece of propaganda. Many vaccine injured teens and adults, with serious brain damage and developmental disabilities, love Elmo. It is a slap in the face to those families. Especially when it ends with taunt at vaccine resistant families, "why doesn't everyone get a vaccination?" as if there was no federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program that has paid out $3 billion in damages to 4000 vaccine injury and death cases.<br /><br />Vaccine injury families are suffering, few can get proper care for their children, and this rubs salt in the wounds."<br /><br /><br />Update:<br /><br />Jeffrey Jaxen furthers the argument with a much less sarcastic piece: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.jeffereyjaxen.com/blog/surgeon-general-targets-children-violates-ftc-fda-laws" target="_blank">Surgeon General Targets Children, Violates FTC &amp; FDA laws?</a><br /><br /><br />Update:<br /><br />Marco Cáceres remarks on how aggressive and comprehensive this vaccine push is:<br /><br /><a href="https://idsent.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/vaccines-its-elmos-world/" target="_blank">Vaccines: It's Elmo's World</a><br /><br />Updates;<br /><br />Video of Elmo's regression has surfaced:<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jcHHF_teek0" width="560"></iframe>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-51596679906128132802015-04-16T10:22:00.001-04:002015-04-26T21:55:03.851-04:00A Note on Who You May or May Not Want To Follow in the California Fight on SB 277<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey Californians! First... brilliant job yesterday and for the last several months on educating your Senators on the insanity of SB 277! Cried watching the hearings, and laughed/danced at the outcome. The pressure needs to stay on, but I will be shocked at this point if the bill is not dead this time next week. We should plan an online party next wed night! (Sure I'm getting ahead of myself, but we need some happy time after all this, don't we?)<br /><br />But on to more somber and less fun topics.<br /><br />The fight on this bill in CA has woken up and brought in so many new people to the war to defend our parental and health choice rights, which is wonderful! WELCOME TO YOU ALL! STAY IN THIS FIGHT! THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE! But unfortunately it also risks allowing shills, trolls, spies, and the just plain troublesome people into the fold as well, as has happened many times before. (I now get AT LEAST one troll a day trying to friend me on FB.) <br /><br />As there have been some questions about a couple of the new people taking leadership positions about which there have been concerns, and as I am one of those people who vets newcomers to make sure they are legit and safe, etc, I was asked by some people in CA to look into WTF was going on. This is my WTF report. It represents the findings and opinions of me, myself and I, and is in no way associated with any group that I have worked for, orgs that I am affiliated with, individuals that I know, people that I may or may not be married to, or humans to which I have given birth. Buck stopping here, etc, etc.<br /><br />So one of the many FB groups that has popped up to fight SB 277 is a group called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/OurKidsOurChoice.OpposeSB277/" target="_blank">Our Kids Our Choice</a>&nbsp;(sister group is&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/nomedicalmandates" target="_blank">Our Kids,Our Choice Community</a>). It was started by a woman named Kristin Hundley and one of the admins there is another woman named Elizabeth Hanson. They started the group in February, and it has quickly grown to almost 7,000 people. They were working with the larger coalition of groups, called the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/CACoalitionHealthChoice/" target="_blank">California Coalition for Health Choice</a> (not formally affiliated with HealthChoice.org of which I am in leadership), which includes many of our more well known activists who have been working on these issues for a decade or more.<br /><br />Long story short, Ms. Hundley, and to a lesser extent, Ms. Hanson, have exhibited behavior over the last few month that have resulted in everyone in the CCHC, except for one individual, refusing to work with them, and this week the questions that were finally being asked were, “WTF? Who are these people, and are they Pharma sent to be a bother to us?” Enter Ginger Taylor to find out WTF.<br /><br />Before launching into this, I want to be clear that I HAVE ONLY LOOKED INTO THESE TWO WOMEN, AND WHAT I AM REPORTING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY OF THE OTHER ADMINS ON THE GROUP OR ANY OF THE GROUP MEMBERS. They may be saints straight from heaven for all I know. &nbsp;I have not talked to them in person, but online chats with them give me the impression that they are sincere and may not even know about all the problems.<br /><br />The concerns included the reports that:<br /><br />- No one could be found that had actually met either of them in person.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- They had never attended hearings or any events.<br />- These two women may be one person, after one was contacting people from her own fb account but giving people the other's name in chats.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- They were asking for 50k in funding that was going directly to Kristin Hundley personally from a <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/Our-Kids-OurChoice" target="_blank">go fund me page</a> with out anyone confirming who she was or having a way to confirm how the money would actually be spent. (They are not a non-profit or a PAC or any legal entity, there is no way to track funding, no one had met them or knew their addresses, there were not receipts offered to the group, all things that make Kristin's fund raising suspect.)<br />- That Kristin was trying to turn this into a full time paid position for herself riding off the reputation of the orgs in the CCHC.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- They were collecting personal information from people (full name, city, county, number of children in school, etc) through <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NnTiAYfnjtA4J-Q9RRo1XOCsImuemtr66EegxyFz770/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1" target="_blank">an online survey</a> with out the community knowing where that information would go or would be used. Note there is no claim that the personal information will be kept private and not shared outside of OKOC. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- They were head hunting from other groups trying to take regional leaders from existing groups for their own efforts.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- They were making demands of long time activists with standing when, they had no track record and no one could confirm who they were in the real world. Their only standing was that they had a fb group of 6,000+ people.<br />- They had put up <a href="http://www.ourkidsourchoice.org/what-we-do.html" target="_blank">a web site</a> that does not list their names, any officers of the group, any address, any legal filing/standing/affiliation, not even a phone number. &nbsp;The site has no identifying information on it. &nbsp;[Update: someone called to tell me that there is a phone number on the moble version of the site, but not on the web version of the site.]<br />- They are using pictures of the CA rally that they did not help organize, finance or attend to promote their group with out the permission of the photographers or the organizers of the rally.<br />- They were just very difficult people to work with and a good deal of time and energy was being spent trying to manage their personalities and the conflicts that they were stirring up rather than fighting Pan.<br />- They may be opposition plants here to divert money, time, resources, people, etc away from the efforts.<br /><br />Usually these kinds of concerns work themselves out after a few months when people's work stands or falls on its own, but the CA fight is too important to be that indulgent here as we need every minute and every dollar to be used effectively. Since this came up on Tuesday, the day before the Ed. Committee hearings, ain't nobody got time for dat. As it is still not over... still no time for dat.<br /><br />So I put out the word that there may be a problem with these women, and started asking lots of people if they knew these women offline, and found that, in fact, no one had ever laid eyes on either one of them. I was given a phone number for Kristin and called her to figure out what was going on, and ended up having two phone calls with both of them on the line for more than an hour. A fourth party also was on the line for most of the conversation. <br /><br />I can report that these are two women, both in California, whose identities I have been able to confirm independently. Elizabeth does have a financial conflict of interest, as her husband works for a biotech company, but she reported it to me the first time I asked them to disclose any potential conflicts of interest. <b>I WAS QUITE CONVINCED BY OUR CONVERSATIONS THAT THEY EARNESTLY CARE ABOUT, AND ARE WORKING TOWARD, VACCINE CHOICE RIGHTS AND ARE NOT TROLLS OR SHILLS OR SPIES.</b> <br /><br />However...<br /><br />My experience with them over the last two days in trying to give them a chance to be vetted so that they might back earn some of the trust and benefit of the doubt that they were initially given, was that they are very difficult, entitled women who do not have the requisite maturity for leadership in our community.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Their response toward me was a pretty rude, “Who <i>are </i>you?” Despite the fact that they were actually sharing stories I had written and Health Choice's video content. I initially tried with some subtly to let them know that I am someone who has been around for a while, that many people trust and and that I sometimes look into problems in the community to make sure that people in leadership are safe people, and if I find they arn't, I let people know so they can make informed choices on who to be involved with. They didn't really seem to hear me. After a few times of having to explain who I was, they again asked something to the effect of, “how do we even know.... “ and I actually had to flat out say to them, in a quite annoyed tone, “I am powerful in this community. If I report on you, people will believe what I say.” No one who has earned any standing in any community should have to actually say those words out loud to someone else who wants to be in leadership in that community. It felt absolutely gross to say. It was one step away from, “Do you know who I am?!” Ugh...<br /><br />I sent them my bio, the book, the debate and a few of my other bona fides, but they didn't respond to them.<br /><br />Long story short, I asked for their home addresses (and gave them mine and promised that their information would stay private) so that I could verify who they were. They refused. I asked them for receipts of the money they had spent, or the names of individuals I could contact that they had contracted with that could confirm that they were being paid to work on the issue (or even whose expenses were being paid). They refused. I asked them to simply email me so I could have their email addresses to do a search on them. They said they would email me. That was two days ago and no emails. I sent them several fb messages to tell them unless they gave me something to independently verify their identities/view their online presence/know that they are not pocketing the $1,600 that they have raised out of the $50,000 they have asked for, I would be writing publicly about their lack of transparency and the unanswered questions and concerns about them. Their response was that they were contacting their lawyers. <br /><br />This is what their gofund me page reports that the money is for:<br /><br />“<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">These costs include:</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">- lobbyists/political strategists’ fees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">- legal fees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">- website hosting, domain hosting, and web creation fees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">- PO box and phone number fees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">- stock photo licensing fees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">- photocopying/binding fees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">- bookkeeping/accounting fees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">- video/photo editing fees</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span>“<br /><br />It is reasonable for a group member to ask for verification that the money is being used thusly. They refused to offer any verification that it is or will be used thusly. <br /><br />This is how the conversation ended:</span></div><ul aria-atomic="false" aria-live="polite" aria-relevant="additions" class="uiList _2ne _4kg" id="webMessengerRecentMessages" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.0799999237061px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:mid.1429110093501:c44eb182f8947b3609" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><strong class="_36" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=526473386&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ginger Taylor</span></a></strong><br /><div class="_37"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong><br /></span><br /><div class="_53"><div class="_3hi clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_38 direction_ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 50px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">I see that you have been reading my messaes and have stopped responding. And I have not yet heard from Kristin on anything since our phone call last night. So this is the note I put out this morning privately to the individuals who have been asking me about you. If you decide to change your course and give me some infomation so that I can verify you are earnest players and not taking advantage of the situation to raise money for yourselves, please let me know.</span><span class="null"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="null"></span></span><br /><div style="margin-top: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">"So just a heads up. I have been trying to follow up with the information on these women since I talked to them last night, and this crap just keeps getting weirder and more strange. People sending me screen caps of odd conversations, Elizabeth posing as Kristin, very odd. And I although they said they would email me so I could at least confirm who they were, they haven't.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="null"></span></span><br /><div style="margin-top: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">Then when I found out that they were trying to raise 50k, with out even so much as an address for the group or for Kristin (who the money from the gofundme page is going straight to) I asked them for some sort of recipets or references from someone that they had contracted with to do work on the hearings, and they won't send me any information They also refused to give me their addresses, even though I gave them mine and assured them that their info would be kept private.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="null"></span></span><br /><div style="margin-top: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">Group leadership is responsible to the group to account for finances raised by the group, and they are denying any information on the money quesions from a group member. </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="null"></span></span><br /><div style="margin-top: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">So I am going to give them until the end of the day to do something that can be independently verified and then if they don't, put out a public statement recommending that people be cautious with these two and only give donations to verified groups like the CCA or CCHC.</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><div style="margin-top: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">I don't think they are pharma trolls or spies, but perhaps opportunists and at the very least they lack the minimum maturity required for a leadership role in our community. My experience with them is that they come accross as very entitled and demanding, and don't seem to think that they are accountable for their actions, even to their own group members."</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="_1yr" style="float: right; margin-left: 4px;"><span class="_2oy" style="float: right;"></span></div></div></div><div class="_sq"></div></div></div></div></li><li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:mid.1429113299984:7e9af1895e179a3957" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_2w7 _8o _8t lfloat _ohe" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px;"><a data-reactid=".3t" href="https://www.facebook.com/kristen.hundley.5" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Kristen Hundley" class="_50dv img" data-reactid=".3t.0" height="32" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/11013080_10206274540283277_8257122116735722094_n.jpg?oh=c913b8cf19e4ba6a300068b7039c182c&amp;oe=55E0A0AB&amp;__gda__=1437404493_eb390de10e8697e6041642b191fe654c" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="32" /></span></a></div><div class="clearfix _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><div class="rfloat _ohf" style="float: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a aria-label="Sent from chat" class="mrs _9k" data-hover="tooltip" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default; display: inline-block; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img _9h" height="1" src="https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/y1/r/oNzC2yC1569.gif" style="background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/ya/r/tFIHn56zYlh.png); background-position: -301px -300px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 312px 610px; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 13px; vertical-align: middle; width: 9px;" width="1" /></a><a class="_b9" data-hovercard-instant="1" data-hovercard-offset-x="-18" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default;"><abbr class="_35 timestamp" data-utime="1429113300.188" style="border-bottom-style: none; color: #bdc1c9; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" title="Wednesday">4/15, 11:55am</abbr></a></span><br /><div class="_39" style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="_3a" style="text-align: right;"></div></div><div><strong class="_36" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1258959490&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/kristen.hundley.5" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kristen Hundley</span></a></strong><br /><div class="_37"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong> </span><br /><div class="_53"><div class="_3hi clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_38 direction_ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 50px;"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">We are consulting with our legal team on how to proceed in communication with you. We will contact you at the appropriate time.</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="_1yr" style="float: right; margin-left: 4px;"><span class="_2oy" style="float: right;"></span></div></div></div><div class="_sq"></div></div></div></div></div></li><li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:mid.1429116564501:fdbb7045fd1c702e74" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_2w7 _8o _8t lfloat _ohe" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px;"><a data-reactid=".3v" href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Ginger Taylor" class="_50dv img" data-reactid=".3v.0" height="32" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/10609681_10152461403353387_3070783055644876883_n.jpg?oh=39ba23b41f660d64bc9c1e2f9f7dc53f&amp;oe=55D88436&amp;__gda__=1437450960_99834df2a52a7de3af13268ab7964776" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="32" /></span></a></div><div class="clearfix _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><div class="rfloat _ohf" style="float: right;"><a class="_b9" data-hovercard-instant="1" data-hovercard-offset-x="-18" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default;"><abbr class="_35 timestamp" data-utime="1429116564.578" style="border-bottom-style: none; color: #bdc1c9; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" title="Wednesday"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4/15, 12:49pm</span></abbr></a><br /><div class="_39" style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="_3a" style="text-align: right;"></div></div><div><strong class="_36" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=526473386&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ginger Taylor</span></a></strong><br /><div class="_37"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong> </span><br /><div class="_53"><div class="_3hi clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_38 direction_ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 50px;"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">Ok. Will be publishing tomorrow, so let me know any information you want me to have before then.</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="_1yr" style="float: right; margin-left: 4px;"><span class="_2oy" style="float: right;"></span></div></div></div><div class="_sq"></div></div></div></div></div></li><li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:mid.1429125558569:8cc7f2753705c96285" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_2w7 _8o _8t lfloat _ohe" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px;"><a data-reactid=".3x" href="https://www.facebook.com/kristen.hundley.5" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Kristen Hundley" class="_50dv img" data-reactid=".3x.0" height="32" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/11013080_10206274540283277_8257122116735722094_n.jpg?oh=c913b8cf19e4ba6a300068b7039c182c&amp;oe=55E0A0AB&amp;__gda__=1437404493_eb390de10e8697e6041642b191fe654c" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="32" /></span></a></div><div class="clearfix _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><div class="rfloat _ohf" style="float: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a aria-label="Sent from Mobile" class="mrs _9k" data-hover="tooltip" href="https://www.facebook.com/mobile/" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default; display: inline-block; margin-right: 5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img _9j" height="1" src="https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/y1/r/oNzC2yC1569.gif" style="background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/ya/r/tFIHn56zYlh.png); background-position: -212px -451px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 312px 610px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 13px; vertical-align: middle; width: 8px;" width="1" /></a><a class="_b9" data-hovercard-instant="1" data-hovercard-offset-x="-18" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default;"><abbr class="_35 timestamp" data-utime="1429125558.614" style="border-bottom-style: none; color: #bdc1c9; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" title="Wednesday">4/15, 3:19pm</abbr></a></span><br /><div class="_39" style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="_3a" style="text-align: right;"></div></div><div><strong class="_36" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1258959490&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/kristen.hundley.5" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kristen Hundley</span></a></strong><br /><div class="_37"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong> </span><br /><div class="_53"><div class="_3hi clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_38 direction_ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 50px;"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">What exactly will you be publishing? I just want to be clear. It sounds like what you are saying is that of we do not comply with your demands, you will publish derogatory and incriminating information about us as individuals and our group as a whole. Do I have that correct?</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="_1yr" style="float: right; margin-left: 4px;"><span class="_2oy" style="float: right;"></span></div></div></div><div class="_sq"></div></div></div></div></div></li><li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:mid.1429126162625:26ed7b3362c3bc8c03" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_2w7 _8o _8t lfloat _ohe" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px;"><a data-reactid=".3z" href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Ginger Taylor" class="_50dv img" data-reactid=".3z.0" height="32" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/10609681_10152461403353387_3070783055644876883_n.jpg?oh=39ba23b41f660d64bc9c1e2f9f7dc53f&amp;oe=55D88436&amp;__gda__=1437450960_99834df2a52a7de3af13268ab7964776" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="32" /></span></a></div><div class="clearfix _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><div class="rfloat _ohf" style="float: right;"><a class="_b9" data-hovercard-instant="1" data-hovercard-offset-x="-18" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default;"><abbr class="_35 timestamp" data-utime="1429126162.755" style="border-bottom-style: none; color: #bdc1c9; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" title="Wednesday"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4/15, 3:29pm</span></abbr></a><br /><div class="_39" style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="_3a" style="text-align: right;"></div></div><div><strong class="_36" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=526473386&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ginger Taylor</span></a></strong><br /><div class="_37"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong> </span><br /><div class="_53"><div class="_3hi clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_38 direction_ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 50px;"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">I have just given you a run down of where I am on you right now. It will be something to that effect. You are free to keep private what ever information you want. And I am free to investigate you and to warn the community if I think that you are not on the up and up. I am an investgative writer. That is what I do.</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="_1yr" style="float: right; margin-left: 4px;"><span class="_2oy" style="float: right;"></span></div></div></div><div class="_sq"></div></div></div></div></div></li><li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:mid.1429126440694:37c605f2bcb4e6d335" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_2w7 _8o _8t lfloat _ohe" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px;"><a data-reactid=".41" href="https://www.facebook.com/kristen.hundley.5" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Kristen Hundley" class="_50dv img" data-reactid=".41.0" height="32" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/11013080_10206274540283277_8257122116735722094_n.jpg?oh=c913b8cf19e4ba6a300068b7039c182c&amp;oe=55E0A0AB&amp;__gda__=1437404493_eb390de10e8697e6041642b191fe654c" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="32" /></span></a></div><div class="clearfix _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><div class="rfloat _ohf" style="float: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a aria-label="Sent from Mobile" class="mrs _9k" data-hover="tooltip" href="https://www.facebook.com/mobile/" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default; display: inline-block; margin-right: 5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img _9j" height="1" src="https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/y1/r/oNzC2yC1569.gif" style="background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/ya/r/tFIHn56zYlh.png); background-position: -212px -451px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 312px 610px; border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 13px; vertical-align: middle; width: 8px;" width="1" /></a><a class="_b9" data-hovercard-instant="1" data-hovercard-offset-x="-18" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default;"><abbr class="_35 timestamp" data-utime="1429126440.736" style="border-bottom-style: none; color: #bdc1c9; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" title="Wednesday">4/15, 3:34pm</abbr></a></span><br /><div class="_39" style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="_3a" style="text-align: right;"></div></div><div><strong class="_36" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1258959490&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/kristen.hundley.5" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kristen Hundley</span></a></strong><br /><div class="_37"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong> </span><br /><div class="_53"><div class="_3hi clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_38 direction_ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 50px;"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">I see. Thank you.</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="_1yr" style="float: right; margin-left: 4px;"><span class="_2oy" style="float: right;"></span></div></div></div><div class="_sq"></div></div></div></div></div></li><li class="_2n3" style="border-top-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #bdc1c9; font-size: 11px; margin: 17px 20px 2px; text-align: center;"><abbr class="timestamp" data-jsid="timestamp" data-utime="0" style="border-bottom-style: none; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; top: -8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today</span></abbr></li><li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:&lt;1429189749010:3314003891-816489179@mail.projektitan.com&gt;" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_2w7 _8o _8t lfloat _ohe" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px;"><a data-reactid=".4i" href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Ginger Taylor" class="_50dv img" data-reactid=".4i.0" height="32" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/10609681_10152461403353387_3070783055644876883_n.jpg?oh=39ba23b41f660d64bc9c1e2f9f7dc53f&amp;oe=55D88436&amp;__gda__=1437450960_99834df2a52a7de3af13268ab7964776" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="32" /></span></a></div><div class="clearfix _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><div class="rfloat _ohf" style="float: right;"><a class="_b9" data-hovercard-instant="1" data-hovercard-offset-x="-18" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default;"><abbr class="_35 timestamp" data-utime="1429189754.265" style="border-bottom-style: none; color: #bdc1c9; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" title="Today"><span style="font-family: inherit;">9:09am</span></abbr></a><br /><div class="_39" style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="_3a" style="text-align: right;"></div></div><div><strong class="_36" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=526473386&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ginger Taylor</span></a></strong><br /><div class="_37"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong> </span><br /><div class="_53"><div class="_3hi clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_38 direction_ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 50px;"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">I will be publishing in the next hourish, so please let me know now if you plan on sending any infromation to me that I can use to vet you guys or your claims.</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="_1yr" style="float: right; margin-left: 4px;"><span class="_2oy" style="float: right;"></span></div></div></div><div class="_sq"></div></div></div></div></div></li><li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:mid.1429193557906:0dc5daced3f08dbd06" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_2w7 _8o _8t lfloat _ohe" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px;"><a data-reactid=".4q" href="https://www.facebook.com/kristen.hundley.5" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Kristen Hundley" class="_50dv img" data-reactid=".4q.0" height="32" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/11013080_10206274540283277_8257122116735722094_n.jpg?oh=c913b8cf19e4ba6a300068b7039c182c&amp;oe=55E0A0AB&amp;__gda__=1437404493_eb390de10e8697e6041642b191fe654c" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="32" /></span></a></div><div class="clearfix _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><div class="rfloat _ohf" style="float: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a aria-label="Sent from chat" class="mrs _9k" data-hover="tooltip" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default; display: inline-block; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="img _9h" height="1" src="https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/y1/r/oNzC2yC1569.gif" style="background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/ya/r/tFIHn56zYlh.png); background-position: -301px -300px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 312px 610px; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 13px; vertical-align: middle; width: 9px;" width="1" /></a><a class="_b9" data-hovercard-instant="1" data-hovercard-offset-x="-18" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default;"><abbr class="_35 timestamp" data-utime="1429193558.123" style="border-bottom-style: none; color: #bdc1c9; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" title="Today">10:12am</abbr></a></span><br /><div class="_39" style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="_3a" style="text-align: right;"></div></div><div><strong class="_36" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1258959490&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/kristen.hundley.5" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kristen Hundley</span></a></strong><br /><div class="_37"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong> </span><br /><div class="_53"><div class="_3hi clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_38 direction_ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 50px;"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">Hi Ginger...I am still confused about what you are publishing. You can easily google us to find out who we are. Have you done any investigation that would lead you to believe that we are *not* as you say "on the up and up". You are demanding that we give you our personal information and stating that if we don't you will publish incriminating things about us. Please clarify if that is your position.</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><div class="_1yr" style="float: right; margin-left: 4px;"><span class="_2oy" style="float: right;"></span></div></div></div><div class="_sq"></div></div></div></div></div></li><li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:&lt;1429194032694:2401704808-816489179@mail.projektitan.com&gt;" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_2w7 _8o _8t lfloat _ohe" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px;"><a data-reactid=".51" href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Ginger Taylor" class="_50dv img" data-reactid=".51.0" height="32" src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p80x80/10609681_10152461403353387_3070783055644876883_n.jpg?oh=39ba23b41f660d64bc9c1e2f9f7dc53f&amp;oe=55D88436&amp;__gda__=1437450960_99834df2a52a7de3af13268ab7964776" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="32" /></span></a></div><div class="clearfix _42ef" style="overflow: hidden; zoom: 1;"><div class="rfloat _ohf" style="float: right;"><a class="_b9" data-hovercard-instant="1" data-hovercard-offset-x="-18" href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" role="button" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default;"><abbr class="_35 timestamp" data-utime="1429194037.928" style="border-bottom-style: none; color: #bdc1c9; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" title="Today"><span style="font-family: inherit;">10:20am</span></abbr></a><br /><div class="_39" style="text-align: right;"></div><div class="_3a" style="text-align: right;"></div></div><div><strong class="_36" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; margin: 1px 0px 4px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=526473386&amp;extragetparams=%7B%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ginger Taylor</span></a></strong><br /><div class="_37"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong> </span><br /><div class="_53"><div class="_3hi clearfix" style="zoom: 1;"><div class="_38 direction_ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-right: 50px;"><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;">This is what I am publishing. Going up in about five minutes. I will send you the link once it is up:</span></div><span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></li></ul><blockquote class="tr_bq"></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />And then I sent them the draft this article. <br /><br />To sum up my read on them:<br />- Care very much about vaccine choice<br />- Not pharma plants<br />- Not mature people<br />- Not qualified for leadership<br />- At best they may be niave on this work and on how to treat fellow activists, but I will go so far as to say that my experience of these women are that they are entitled brats who don't seem to think that they are accountable for their actions, not even to members of their own organization.<br /><br />I strongly encourage them to re-evalute their approach to advocacy and how they treat fellow advocates, and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors.<br /><br />So, my recommendations to you the California Pan Fighting Facebooker:<br /><br />- If you have donated to their go fund me page, you may want to consider either ask them for some verifiable information on who they are and what the money is being used for, or get your money back.<br />- If you want to donate to the California efforts, the two reputable groups that I know of to do that through are the CCA (https://www.calchiro.org/) or The Canary Party (http://canaryparty.org/index.php/donate - 100% of all donations tagged “California” go straight to the CCHC efforts.) <br />- Members of the OKOC page may want to do their own vetting on the leadership of that group to see if they can get more information than I was able to before giving them your trust.<br />- If you have taken their online survey you may want to ask what that information will be used for and if it will remain private.<br />- Follow the recommendations of the CCHC if you are in the California fight.<br />- If you consider me a trusted source, don't automatically assume that any group I am in is one I actually have vetted and support, or that anyone on my friend's list is a safe person. I have nearly 4,500 fb friends and am in hundreds of group (because people can add me to whatever). &nbsp;I am sure that there are tolls both among my fb followers or in those groups.<br /><br />If anyone has more information on who they are, and whether or not you have a trusted relationship with them, please post below. &nbsp;I could not find anyone who did, but I only had two days to look. <br /><br />As always, as this fight for vaccine choice rights becomes more and more intense, it is wise for us to pay attention to who is in leadership. &nbsp;Different groups take different approaches, and I actually think that is great. &nbsp;We all need to find a group that we can trust and who shares our goals and values. <br /><br />If OKOC is your group of choice, then great. &nbsp;I earnestly wish you all the success in the world. &nbsp;Just want to encourage you to pay closer attention to your leadership in this very, very important battle to make sure that little red flags and problems don't become huge problems that hamstring the actual work.<br /><br />I let them know I would post any statement that they sent me on this matter.<br /><br />Correction: &nbsp;They actually have two FB groups and I had confused one for the other. &nbsp;They are now both listed and links are correct.<br /><br />Update: &nbsp;Kristen and Elizabth have cirulated a <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/afa19ctq4jbe0c8/OKOCfinal.mp4?dl=0&amp;fb=1&amp;fb_action_ids=10204954107626650&amp;fb_action_types=dropboxdropbox%3Aadd&amp;fb_source=other_multiline&amp;action_object_map=%5B848525808556129%5D&amp;action_type_map=%5B%22dropboxdropbox%3Aadd%22%5D&amp;action_ref_map=%5B%5D&amp;hc_location=ufi" target="_blank">video via drop box</a>.<br /><br />Update: 4/17 Kristen posts to the OKOC group:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Kristen Hundley<br /><br />Hi folks. I'm writing to clear up some questions an rumors. I'm sorry my response took so long. I'm a human after all and I have been hurt by all the accusations just like I'm sure anyone of you would be if you were attacked. I realize unfortunately this is part of the political game. To clear things up I want you to know that I'm hiring an accountant to manage the go fund me account. It's currently sitting in escrow. This was always the plan. I realize now it was a mistake to not address that immediately. If you go to the go fund me page now you will see that how the funds will be spent is clearly outlined. I will also be adding my bio to the website as the founder of the group. I hope all of you will see my full transparency. I'm a single mom doing the best I can and have devoted all my free time to OKOC and our cause. I am at work today as I'm sure many of you are but I just wanted to quickly address your concerns and let you know that I'm listening. I'd appreciate in return that you understand that with a full time job I'm doing all of this completely in my spare time and am handling them as quickly as possible. Thank you all for your continued efforts and commitment. I will continue to do everything I can to help us defeat this bill.</blockquote><br />Update 4/17 I have had a few more specific requests on where to go for information on the California efforts for those looking for daily updates and directions. &nbsp;I recommend the California Coalition for Vaccine Choice. https://www.facebook.com/groups/393039350720224/<br /><br /><br /><br />Update:<br /><br />Statement by the California Coalition for Health Choice:<br /><br />"CCHC Continues To Grow &amp; Show Strength<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />The California Coalition for Health Choice (CCHC) is a grassroots umbrella organization that advocates for the preservation of parental rights regarding medical decisions for their children. &nbsp;CCHC represents thousands of parents, healthcare professionals and concerned citizens who oppose SB277.<br /><br />The CCHC-YFYC has been the leader in setting direction for legislative advocacy and media strategy. &nbsp;CCHC was responsible for recruiting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Eric Gladen, Dr. Bob Sears and others for our Sacramento and San Diego Rallies. &nbsp;These rallies were broadcast statewide. &nbsp;CCHC was also responsible for orchestrating testimony, and mobilizing the thousands of people who attended the Senate Health &amp; Education Committee hearings. CCHC is responsible for the largest victory to date, which is to delay a vote in Senate Education Committee. &nbsp;This clearly demonstrates that we are being heard.<br /><br />CCHC consists of many advocacy and grassroots organizations, including: Californians for Health Choice; Your Family, Your Choice - People for Informed Consent; the Canary Party; California Coalition for Vaccine Choice; People Against Mandatory Vaccines, Weston Price Foundation and many others. &nbsp;CCHC also seeks counsel, support and resources from other organizations, including the California Chiropractic Association. <br /><br />CCHC is in no way affiliated with a group called Our Kids, Our Choice. There has been confusion as this group has posted pictures of the events, and presented themselves as involved in our Coalition. &nbsp; CCHC has made several attempts to work with OKOC leadership, and these attempts have failed. &nbsp;OKOC has no interest in working with CCHC. While this is unfortunate, we do welcome members of OKOC who share in our mission to join our cause.<br /><br />For questions or to officially become part of CCHC, please contact us at cchcyfyc@gmail.com. <br /><br />Please refer all media inquiries to Jean Munoz Keese via private message, and/or email CCHCMedia@yahoo.com."</div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-32654725103420813452015-04-14T13:26:00.001-04:002015-04-14T17:10:57.046-04:00Paul Offit Pulls Out of a Debate with Toni BarkPaul Offit and Toni Bark were set to appear today on the Mike Gallagher radio show to discuss vaccines. <br /><br />Offit canceled. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lC6KPu798M4/VS1NT8KFdYI/AAAAAAAAA1E/bO3H4kOzJC0/s1600/offitcancels.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lC6KPu798M4/VS1NT8KFdYI/AAAAAAAAA1E/bO3H4kOzJC0/s1600/offitcancels.gif" height="132" width="640" /></a></div><br />Interesting follow up to the refusal to appear on <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/5/inside_the_vaccine_war_measles_outbreak" target="_blank">Democracy Now</a> at the same time as Mary Holland. &nbsp;The hosts called him out for it on the air and Offit melted down.<br /><br />Paul Offit is a liar and a coward.<br /><br />I long for the day he is placed under oath, is made to testify and is cross examined.<br /><br />Update:<br /><br />Debating vaccine safety is beneath Paul Offit:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ry-GvEfURd4/VS2CTBpulBI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/B16Z1YqVJZo/s1600/offitbark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ry-GvEfURd4/VS2CTBpulBI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/B16Z1YqVJZo/s1600/offitbark.jpg" height="400" width="321" /></a></div><br /><br />Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-16823787445491617872015-04-11T20:54:00.000-04:002015-04-11T20:54:14.547-04:00Extended, Fair, Balanced, Live, Unedited, Mainstream Media Vaccine Debate Happens. (I can't believe I just wrote that sentence)<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This week I did a thing. &nbsp;Below is the article I wrote about the thing for the web site of the Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice. &nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maine vaccine interests are not super happy that the thing happened. &nbsp;<a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/12/mainehealthmaine-vax-kids-makes-false.html" target="_blank">Cassandra Grantham</a> of Vax Maine Kids thinks that the thing is super wrong. &nbsp;From their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vaxmainekids?fref=ts" target="_blank">FB page</a> on the debate:</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--BorCi8_7Ew/VSnBsQ5Z1gI/AAAAAAAAA0s/5yLrtpieWl4/s1600/reallycassandra.fw.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--BorCi8_7Ew/VSnBsQ5Z1gI/AAAAAAAAA0s/5yLrtpieWl4/s1600/reallycassandra.fw.png" height="200" width="177" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Really, Cassandra?</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span>This anonymous blogger believes that the panel debating vaccines being hosted by WGME CBS 13 News, Portland tonight may in fact be more about ratings than ethics. Is this sensational journalism? Is there sometimes when there is no other side and entertaining anything else is irresponsible?"<br /><br />Gosh... if an anonblog says it is an ethics problem then let's shut that mother down! &nbsp;Parents and docs that don't tow the line should not be allowed to speak in public!<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">and...</span><br /><br />"We can tell you that there were many pediatricians that were asked to participate tonight on this show that refused in silent protest of the fact that the issue is being presented as having two sides...that says a lot to us."<br /><br />Rumors of anondocs protesting silently... always a strong arguement. &nbsp;How is this woman still employed? &nbsp;This is a giant health corporation and their spokes person comes across as a college sophmore sorrority sister majoring in prissy passive agression.<br /><br />And this little hilarious note: "What needs to be discussed is how best to work with families that have concerns and questions about vaccination and how to encourage parents that are solidly in favor of vaccines to speak out as often and frequently as parents who are skeptical."<br /><br />Funny for two reasons, First, she has blocked me from commenting on their fb page, showing they have no interest in working with families that have questions and concerns about vaccination, and second, no one comments on their posts so they can't even get their followers to "speak out as often as parents who are skeptical."<br /><br />Anyway... here is the story about the thing and the videos of <strike>how fat I am</strike>&nbsp;the vaccine debate.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">By Ginger Taylor</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This week in Maine an unprecedented event occurred. A mainstream media outlet hosted an extended, live debate on vaccines, invited a balanced panel and a balanced audience, let the audience questions drive the debate, and in no way biased or edited the final product.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This bold media outlet, CBS affiliate </span></span><a href="http://www.wgme.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/town-hall-vaccinations-part-1-26743.shtml#.VSa7H5P7EUN"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">WGME in Portland, Maine</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, along with their media partner the </span></span><a href="http://vitalsigns.bangordailynews.com/2015/04/09/public-health/my-take-on-a-forum-for-opposing-views-about-vaccines/"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bangor Daily News</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, hosted this as a part of a national Town Hall event series. The panelists were</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">former pediatrician and current Medical Director for MaineCare</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></span><a href="http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oms/contacts.shtml"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kevin Flanigan, MD, MBA</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, former pediatrician and </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Vice President for Clinical Affairs for the University of New England </span></span><a href="http://www.une.edu/people/dora-anne-mills"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dora Anne Mills </span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.une.edu/people/dora-anne-mills">M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.</a>, authority on the anthrax vaccine </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P-qoaVgEfmWiQDx8PbWrwBL0dbXD2DwUjf9l4o5uHJs/edit"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Meryl Nass, M.D.</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and myself, </span></span><a href="http://mainevaxchoice.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=59&amp;Itemid=54"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ginger Taylor, MS, BA, AM</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(autism mom).</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Turns out there is a good reason that public health officials and vaccine program defenders don't participate in fair, open, unedited, extended debates with critics of the vaccine program... they have dramatically different outcomes than the biased, prepackaged media pieces we are used to seeing. Public health loses control of the narrative quickly.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">WGME has placed the entire debate on their web site and on YouTube. We at the Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice encourage you to take an evening to watch this unique debate, and to share it widely with those who are interested in more in depth discussions on vaccine matters.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In preparation for this article, I contacted my fellow panelists to tell them that we would be writing a follow up to the event and asked them to send any citations that might apply to the topics that they discussed so that those interested could continue to research the material. Below the videos you will find each of their notes.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Currently there are five vaccine bills in the Maine Legislature. Two that restrict and remove vaccine exemption rights, one that adds more vaccines to the list of those mandated for school entry, one that prevents discrimination against those who are unvaccinated, and another, written by me, to create a vaccine safety office at the Maine CDC to prevent vaccine injury, and to get vaccine injuries properly assessed, diagnosed, treated and compensated via the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.<br /><br />These bills will be heard in the Joint Committee on Health and Human Services on May 11</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;">th</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. We will be holding an all day advocacy push that day which includes a scheduled visit from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who will be educating legislators on what he has learned about vaccine safety after investigating parental vaccine injury claims. <br /><br />We encourage Mainers who want to retain their right to vaccinate as they choose, and who want to work to prevent vaccine injury, to join our mailing list on </span></span><a href="http://mainevaxchoice.org/"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://mainevaxchoice.org/</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, join our group on facebook at </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/MaineCoalitionforVaccineChoice/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/MaineCoalitionforVaccineChoice/</a>,</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and to join us in Augusta on May 11</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;">th</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">as we educate the legislators on what is really going on in the vaccine program and why parental rights must be respected. </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1593889950828752/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1593889950828752/</a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>On behalf of myself, The Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice, The Canary Party, HealthChoice.org, and the thousands of families we represent, we thank CBS 13/WGME and the Bangor Daily News for holding such an unbiased and in depth town hall discussion on vaccines.</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> We hope that this will be a shining example of how mainstream media can restore their reputation with the public on this topic, and that it will be the first of many such events in the US.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gSQFvkQGt6A" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OdZCih9X4gI" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vnqq8XXAv6Q" width="560"></iframe><br /> <br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BsMbcWN_WBg" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wXl71dmTC8g" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cji1Tqc_xmM" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Notes by Dr. Meryl Nass:</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Pertussis Discussion</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Pertussis vaccine may not protect, and may enhance spread of pertussis if exposed after vaccination: </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896208/"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3896208/</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25182980"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25182980</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was written up in Science, Scientific American, NY Times, yet ignored and disputed during our debate: </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><cite><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/.../baboon-study-reveals-new-shortcoming-of-pertussis-vaccine/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">www.scientificamerican.com/.../</span></span></span></a></cite><cite><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/.../baboon-study-reveals-new-shortcoming-of-pertussis-vaccine/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>baboon</b></span></span></span></a></cite><cite><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/.../baboon-study-reveals-new-shortcoming-of-pertussis-vaccine/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;">-study-reveals-new-shortcoming-of-</span></span></span></a></cite><cite><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/.../baboon-study-reveals-new-shortcoming-of-pertussis-vaccine/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>pertussis</b></span></span></span></a></cite><cite><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/.../baboon-study-reveals-new-shortcoming-of-pertussis-vaccine/">-vaccine/</a><br /><br />Science has a better article than Scientific American on the FDA findings on pertussis vaccine:</span></span></span></cite></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><cite><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2013/11/whooping-cough-vaccine-does-not-stop-spread-disease-lab-animals"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: normal;">http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2013/11/whooping-cough-vaccine-does-not-stop-spread-disease-lab-animals</span></span></span></a></cite></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‎</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here the FDA responds to those who dispute the validity of the baboon model:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm376937.htm"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;"><u>http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm376937.htm</u></span></span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Swine Flu/GBS Discussion </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The former head of CDC who led the 1976 swine flu vaccine program admits there was Guillain Barre Syndrome as a result: </span></span><a href="http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/suppl_1/S4.long"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/suppl_1/S4.long</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A review this month acknowledges GBS due to the 1976 program: </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25850385"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25850385</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /><br />NYT: Fear of a Swine Flu Epidemic in 1976 Offers Some Lessons, and Concerns, Today:</span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/health/09vaccine.html"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/health/09vaccine.html</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book by National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine about the program:</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Richard E. Neustadt, Professor of Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Assistant Professor of Health Services, School of Public Health, Harvard University</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With an introduction by Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Published by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1978 </span></span><a href="http://iom.edu/~/media/Files/About%20the%20IOM/SwineFluAffair.pdf"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://iom.edu/~/media/Files/About%20the%20IOM/SwineFluAffair.pdf</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">World Health Organization/CDC slide show that says the relative risk was 7.6 based on 8 studies, and "several reanalyses with same conclusions" (slide 4):</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.who.int/immunization/sage/Sejvar_GBS_influenza_2slides_page.pdf"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.who.int/immunization/sage/Sejvar_GBS_influenza_2slides_page.pdf</span></span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A 2012 paper that notes the risk of GBS increased more than 6 times in vaccinees:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22582208"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22582208</span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The CDC's admission on the matter:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/198/2/226.long"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>J Infect Dis.</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2008 Jul 15;198(2):226-33. doi: 10.1086/589624.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anti-ganglioside antibody induction by swine (A/NJ/1976/H1N1) and other influenza vaccines: insights into vaccine-associated Guillain-Barré syndrome.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Nachamkin%20I%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Nachamkin I</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1, </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Shadomy%20SV%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Shadomy SV</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Moran%20AP%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Moran AP</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Cox%20N%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Cox N</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Fitzgerald%20C%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Fitzgerald C</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Ung%20H%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Ung H</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Corcoran%20AT%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Corcoran AT</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Iskander%20JK%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Iskander JK</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Schonberger%20LB%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Schonberger LB</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Chen%20RT%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cauthor=true&amp;cauthor_uid=18522505"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><u>Chen RT</u></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abstract</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">BACKGROUND:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Receipt of an A/NJ/1976/H1N1 "swine flu" vaccine in 1976, unlike receipt of influenza vaccines used in subsequent years, was strongly associated with the development of the neurologic disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Anti-ganglioside antibodies (e.g., anti-GM(1)) are associated with the development of GBS, and we hypothesized that the swine flu vaccine contained contaminating moieties (such as Campylobacter jejuni antigens that mimic human gangliosides or other vaccine components) that elicited an anti-GM(1) antibody response in susceptible recipients.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">METHODS:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Surviving samples of monovalent and bivalent 1976 vaccine, comprising those from 3 manufacturers and 11 lot numbers, along with several contemporary vaccines were tested for hemagglutinin (HA) activity, the presence of Campylobacter DNA, and the ability to induce anti-Campylobacter and anti-GM(1) antibodies after inoculation into C3H/HeN mice.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">RESULTS:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We found that, although C. jejuni was not detected in 1976 swine flu vaccines, these vaccines induced anti-GM(1) antibodies in mice, as did vaccines from 1991-1992 and 2004-2005. Preliminary studies suggest that the influenza HA induces anti-GM(1) antibodies.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">CONCLUSIONS:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Influenza vaccines contain structures that can induce anti-GM(1) antibodies after inoculation into mice. Further research intoinfluenza vaccine components that elicit anti-ganglioside responses and the role played by these antibodies (if any) in vaccine-associated GBS is warranted.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> A sample of six vaccine and injectable medication disasters in the US during the past 60 years</span></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All have been due to failures of testing or failures in manufacturing processes.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Meryl Nass, M.D. March 21, 2015</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. 1955: (Improperly inactivated) live polio vaccine caused polio in thousands of children </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cutter (now part of Bayer) incident 1955–This early US Salk polio vaccine contained live polio virus, which had not been inactivated in the factory. It caused 40,000 polio cases in the US due to inadequate inactivation of live virus. Cutter was the major company involved, but other companies also had problems with viral inactivation. The NIH director and others lost their jobs in the aftermath, since Bernice Eddy, an NIH scientist, had earlier found the vaccines paralyzed monkeys, but her findings were suppressed in the rush to vaccinate.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0199726590"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0199726590</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. 1950s-1960s: SV-40 (Simian Virus 40, a cancer-causing virus) contaminated polio vaccines given to tens of millions of Americans. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SV-40 causes cancer in animals and has been found in human cancers, though its relationship to human cancers remains uncertain, as the research has been contradictory.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.sv40foundation.org/cpv-link.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.sv40foundation.org/cpv-link.html</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. 1970s-1985: Factor 8 Concentrate. a pooled blood product used to prevent bleeding in hemophiliacs, was contaminated with HIV and Hepatitis C, but continued to be sold worldwide, even after manufacturers became aware of the contamination. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Its manufacturers knew it was contaminated with HIV (and Hepatitis C), which spread through the injectable blood products used by hemophiliacs. About 8,000 US hemophiliacs at the time developed HIV infections this way, and an estimated 150,000 developed Hepatitis C, which frequently results in chronic liver disease, cirrhosis or death. The practice of distributing contaminated blood was widespread internationally, with many companies involved, and continued even after the problem was identified. It led to suits against pharmaceutical companies in a number of countries. It led to thousands of deaths. Doctors went to jail.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cutter/ Bayer knowingly sold HIV-contaminated products in the US and overseas, seemingly having learned nothing from its polio-contaminated vaccine disaster 25 years earlier. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood_products</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanhiv/PIIS2352-3018%2815%2900007-7.pdf"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanhiv/PIIS2352-3018%2815%2900007-7.pdf</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/business/2-paths-of-bayer-drug-in-80-s-riskier-one-steered-overseas.html?pagewanted=print"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/business/2-paths-of-bayer-drug-in-80-s-riskier-one-steered-overseas.html?pagewanted=print</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. 1976-1977: Swine flu vaccine given to 45 million Americans for a non-existent disease, causing hundreds of cases of paralysis</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A new flu virus was discovered in a soldier who died at Fort Dix, NJ. Concern that the virus might cause a 1918-like influenza pandemic led to a huge federal program to develop a vaccine and vaccinate every American against the virus. But the epidemic never occurred. And the affected soldier, despite having an acute infection, had undertaken a forced march, and then died. No one knew if the flu had killed him. The vaccine manufacturers, meanwhile, were given a waiver of liability.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After 45 million inoculations of the newly developed vaccine, about 400 people developed paralysis from the vaccine (Guillain Barre syndrome, at a rate 6-8 times expected during the six weeks post-inoculation) and about 30 died. The program was then ended. The Secretary of HEW, Joseph Califano, asked that a thorough investigation be done of the science, the policy and the processes involved. The result is a bird’s eye view of how personal and political agendas came together to supercede considerations of the public health:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://iom.edu/~/media/Files/About%20the%20IOM/SwineFluAffair.pdf"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://iom.edu/~/media/Files/About%20the%20IOM/SwineFluAffair.pdf</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=394635"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=394635</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(unfortunately now behind a paywall)</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5. 1999: Rhesus rotavirus vaccine (Rotashield) caused intestinal tract damage.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This oral vaccine was designed to prevent a usually mild form of gastroenteritis that kills (via dehydration) an estimated 30 US babies per year. However, it caused 22 times the expected number of cases of intussusception of the bowel, and many affected babies required surgery to repair “telescoping” of the guy. Several died. Four months after being licensed, the vaccine was taken off the market.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4843a5.htm"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4843a5.htm</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6. 2009-10 <i>Pandemrix</i> swine flu vaccine, used in Europe, caused about 900 cases of narcolepsy. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Children aged 5-19 were about 15 times more likely to develop narcolepsy if they received the <i>Pandemrix</i>brand of swine flu vaccine in Europe. Other age groups were also at an increased risk or narcolepsy due to the vaccine, but to a lesser degree. Narcolepsy is caused by autoimmune destruction of cells in the locus ceruleus of the brain. It is a newly recognized vaccine adverse reaction. The narcolepsy cases were quite severe and generally associated with cataplexy.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/publications/vaesco%20report%20final%20with%20cover.pdf"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/publications/vaesco%20report%20final%20with%20cover.pdf</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/h1n1_narcolepsy_pandemrix.html"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/h1n1_narcolepsy_pandemrix.html</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The adverse effect profile of drugs and vaccines is generally not well known until millions of people have received the drug or vaccine. This occurred in each of the cases above.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">New federal legislation, removing manufacturer liability for (even unlicensed) products developed for emergencies, increases the speed at which these products are manufactured and tested, increasing their potential risk. citize</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm125127.htm#categories"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm125127.htm#categories</span></span></a></u></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Readiness_and_Emergency_Preparedness_Act"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Readiness_and_Emergency_Preparedness_Act</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For these reasons, citizens deserve to retain the right to choose for themselves and their children whether or not to receive medical products and procedures.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">State Legislators Organization (NCSL) Targets Vaccine Exemptions and Supports Meningitis Vaccines</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How might state legislators be influenced/manipulated by pharmaceutical companies to remove vaccine exemptions and mandate more vaccines? Through their non-partisan national organization, which appears to provide “value-free” information on many subjects of interest to legislators.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The NCSL (national conference of state legislatures) sponsor list includes many Pharma companies</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.ncsl.org/aboutus/ncsl-foundation-for-state-legislatures/sponsor-list.aspx"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncsl.org/aboutus/ncsl-foundation-for-state-legislatures/sponsor-list.aspx</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This organization (NCSL) appears to target vaccine exemptions at this site</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This organization highlighted vaccinations in the February issue of their magazine</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.ncsl.org/bookstore/state-legislatures-magazine/trends-february-2015.aspx"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncsl.org/bookstore/state-legislatures-magazine/trends-february-2015.aspx</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For example:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Between 2009 and 2012, lawmakers in 18 states introduced 36 bills involving vaccine exemptions, 31 of which would have made opting out of shots easier. None of the 31 passed, largely because of strong evidence that withholding vaccinations leads to outbreaks of measles, whooping cough and other diseases. States with easier exemption policies were “associated with a 90 percent higher incidence of whooping cough in 2011,” according to a 2013 Institute of Medicine report.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(</i>This does not make sense, since the main driver in whooping cough epidemics is the waning of vaccine immunity, not lack of vaccinations—Nass)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Children who are vaccinated against preventable diseases such as influenza and whooping cough also have fewer doctors’ visits, hospitalizations and premature deaths, say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">California, Vermont and Washington now require parents who want exemptions to get a doctor’s signature. In Oregon, parents must get a doctor’s signature or watch a video about the risks and benefits of vaccines. In Colorado, where whooping cough cases have topped a 60-year high, lawmakers passed HB 1288 in 2013 requiring schools to collect and make publicly available information about their vaccination and exemption rates.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With a date of 1/12/2015, this organization has a page titled “Immunizations Policy Issues Overview”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/immunizations-policy-issues-overview.aspx"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/immunizations-policy-issues-overview.aspx</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This organization has especially highlighted meningitis vaccine legislation </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/meningitis-state-legislation-and-laws.aspx"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/meningitis-state-legislation-and-laws.aspx</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and HPV vaccine </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/hpv-vaccine-state-legislation-and-statutes.aspx"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/hpv-vaccine-state-legislation-and-statutes.aspx</span></span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">legislation, even though neither vaccine is associated with herd immunity; your child will not “catch” either of these infections through casual contact with other children.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Notes by Ginger Taylor:<br /><br />99 <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link">Research papers</a> supporting the vaccine/autism link.<br /><br />CDC recommended childhood vaccine schedule from 1973 to 1988 as compared to the current schedule following the liability protection put in place in 1986:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://mainevaxchoice.org/images/1983v2015.gif">http://mainevaxchoice.org/images/1983v2015.gif</a><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The CDC adult vaccine schedule: </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/downloads/adult/adult-combined-schedule.pdf"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/downloads/adult/adult-combined-schedule.pdf</span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The National Adult Immunization Plan Draft:</span></span><a href="http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/national_adult_immunization_plan_draft.pdf"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/national_adult_immunization_plan_draft.pdf</span></a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">HHS has become a </span></span><a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/05/a-license-to-kill-part-1-how-a-publicprivate-partnership-made-the-government-mercks-gardasil-partner.html"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">vaccine patent holder</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">while approving, regulating and recommending vaccines, and while and adjudicating vaccine injuries, without disclosing its serious conflicts of interests to consumers</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">The current Congressional investigation into the <a href="http://healthchoice.org/index.php/news/122-outline-of-significant-developments-in-the-recent-revelations-on-vaccine-safety-research-corruption">#CDCwhistleblower</a>scandal, triggered when senior CDC vaccine scientist William Thompson admitted publicly that he and his research team had actively hidden vaccine autism links from the public.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/gan/press/2011/04-13-11.html">DOJ indictment</a> of CDC vaccine safety researcher <a href="http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fugitives/profiles.asp">Poul Thorsen</a> on 21 counts of fraud and money laundering for embezzling more than a million dollars from CDC and his university, whose research CDC is still using to support vaccine safety claims.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-142">US Government Accounting Office</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/12/22/us/politics/ap-us-vaccine-court.html?_r=1">Associated Press/NYT</a> and <a href="http://www.law.gwu.edu/Academics/EL/clinics/vaccine_injury/Documents/Meyers%20Vaccine%20Program%20Law%20Review%20Article.pdf">American University/George Washington School of Law</a> investigations into the failures of the VICP to properly compensate families of vaccine victims.<br /><br /><a href="http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pelr/vol28/iss2/6/">NYT/Pace University Environmental Law Review</a> research showing that, although the federal government will not officially establish the vaccine/autism link, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has been quietly paying autism cases since 1991.<br /><br />Full information on the proposed <a href="http://mainevaxchoice.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=58:maine-parents-introduce-the-maine-vaccine-consumer-protection-act&amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;Itemid=18">Maine Vaccine Consumer Protection Act</a>. <br /><br />Our opposition to the bills in Maine proposed to <a href="http://mainevaxchoice.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=57:oppose-the-farnsworth-vaccine-bill-widens-the-vaccine-divide&amp;catid=1:latest-news&amp;Itemid=18">restrict and remove vaccine choice rights</a>.<br /><br />Johns Hopkins database of vaccine package inserts: <a href="http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/package_inserts.htm">http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/package_inserts.htm</a><br /><br />Vaccine Injury Compensation Table: <br /><a href="http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vaccinetable.html">http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/vaccinetable.html</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">All research into vaccine uptake shows that it is the mostly highly educated parents who are the ones choosing to opt out of vaccination.<br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781415/">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781415/</a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/01/13/peds.2014-2715.full.pdf"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/01/13/peds.2014-2715.full.pdf</span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/557820/news/los-alamos-top-in-nm-for-vaccine-exemptions.html"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.abqjournal.com/557820/news/los-alamos-top-in-nm-for-vaccine-exemptions.html</span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Notes by Kevin Flanigan:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Flanigan wrote very gracious notes to both myself and Dr. Nass about our participation in the debate. He thanked us for the offer to add notes, but shared that the state of Maine believes that the debate as aired speaks for itself.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Notes by Dora Anne Mills:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As of this publishing Dr. Mills has not responded to our offer to include her notes. We will amend should she forward any comments to us.</span><br /><br /></div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-58389471934904195892015-03-26T15:33:00.002-04:002015-03-26T16:22:46.758-04:00MaineHealth Remains Completely Unaccountable for False Vaccine Claims. So I Wrote a Bill.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fKMxI2r1WDk/VRRdCv6hB-I/AAAAAAAAA0Y/IRJxEwBLAjY/s1600/boulder-up-hill-300x211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fKMxI2r1WDk/VRRdCv6hB-I/AAAAAAAAA0Y/IRJxEwBLAjY/s1600/boulder-up-hill-300x211.jpg" /></a></div>In our last installment of, "Ginger goes bitchcakes about all the Pharma lies being proffered in Maine," we learned that <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/12/mainehealthmaine-vax-kids-makes-false.html">Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth had lied about vaccine safety</a>, claiming that there were several vaxxed/unvaxxed studies and they all showed no increased autism rates in vaccinated kids. &nbsp;Research that is as imaginary as the Power Puff Girls.<br /><br />I called her out on it and she only dug a deeper hole, and then said she would not talk to me anymore. <br /><br />So four months ago I decided to go on the fools errand of actually filing complaints against MaineHealth to get the false claims retracted and the company held accountable, just to prove that no one gives a damn... Wanna know what happened?<br /><br /><b>TL;DR: I filed complaints with every private, public, state and federal authority that might have oversight and no one gives a damn.</b><br /><br />Complaints were filed with:<br />MaineHealth<br />Maine Public Broadcasting Network<br />Maine CDC, Maine Immunization Program<br />Maine Bureau of Insurance<br />Maine Immunization Coalition<br />Maine DHHS Fraud Prevention, Maine Attorney General<br />US Food and Drug Administration<br />US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics, Evaluation and Research<br />US Federal Trade Comission<br />... and the ONLY response I received was from FDA who said they didn't have jurisdiction. &nbsp;No one is manning the gate.<br /><br />So in short... there you have it. &nbsp;In Maine you can make ANY CLAIM YOU WANT ABOUT VACCINES and no one will do anything about it. &nbsp;Precedent set.<br /><br />Below are all the letters, for your edification.<br /><br />So <b><a href="http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280055747">I wrote a bill</a></b> to try to put a band-aid on the disaster that is the current vaccine program and a very&nbsp;conscientious&nbsp;State Representative, Beth O'Connor, has introduced it into the Maine Legislature. &nbsp;I revived the&nbsp;<a href="http://mainevaxchoice.org/">Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice</a> and we are coming together to try to... do something... fix this... a bit... but honestly, until the 1986 act is repealed, our kids are going to continue to get sick and die and remain untreated at the hands of this screwed up program and all we will be able to do is stem the tide and keep our rights to opt out of it.<br /><br />Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is going to come to Maine on May 11th and help us get these legislators to understand how badly the vaccine program is broken and that parents need to retain the rights to choose. &nbsp;Perhaps it will get enough people to understand the real problem that they will not put up with the corruption any more. &nbsp;Cross fingers.<br /><br />The complaints:<br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To the Maine Bureau of Insurance</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I would like to file a complaint against MaineHealth for making fraudulent statements concerning one of their product lines.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MaineHealth, both on the VaxMaineKids.org web site and during an interview on MPBN on December 1, have made false vaccine safety claims. I have contacted VaxMaineKids, MaineHealth and MPBN to ask for a retraction and correction of the false marketing messages that they are issuing to the public, but none of the organizations will properly address the issue.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">VaxMaineKids.org makes the false claims on their web site that:<br /><br />“</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.” <br /><br />And that, “No other medical study anywhere in the world has ever found a link between vaccines and autism. Not one.” (http://www.vaxmainekids.org/mythbuster-series-autism/)<br /><br />During an email exchange last summer with Cassandra Grantham, Program Director of Child Health at MaineHealth, initiated by Ms. Grantham after I had written about her work, I corrected the misinformation, sending VaxMaineKids a list with dozens of studies that link vaccines and autism. http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link Ms. Grantham failed to correct the false claims on the MaineHealth web site, and wrote that she was no longer interested in discussing the matter any further with me.<br /><br />Ms. Grantham, representing Maine Health, made further false claims on December 1</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">st</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on MPBN's Maine Calling, when she claimed that there were multiple studies compairing populations of unvaccinated children to children fully vaccinated according to the CDC schedule that have found no increased risk in autism among fully vaccinated children. <br /><br />In fact, no such research exists, as testified to by </span></span><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dr. Coleen Boyle</span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on November 29, 2012. In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated." <br /><br />I wrote to Ms. Grantham to ask that she cite her sources or retract her false claim. In her response, she referred to three publications as sources for her information, none of which referenced a vaccinated. v. unvaccinated autism study. In fact, one of her references, a 2013 report by the Institute of Medicine on the current US vaccine program, addressed the lack vaccinated v. unvaccinated research as a whole, and specifically in regard to autism and other developmental disabilities, and notes that parents and the public have been asking for this research for some time. The IOM report recommends against performing such research, because, although they admit it can be accomplished and would be informative, it would also be costly, time consuming and difficult. <br /><br />Ms. Grantham actually replied to me with information that confirms my allegations against her false claim by MaineHealth.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have further contacted several staff members at MaineHealth to ask for a retraction and for clarification of their stance on a public policy. I have received no reply.<br /><br />Further, I have contacted both Maine Calling hosts and producers, as well as MPBN management, to ask for a retraction of these fraudulent claims, but none have replied. <br /><br />I have attached the email chains below.<br /><br />As MaineHealth is receiving both insurance payments and tax dollars for delivering vaccines, I believe it may be under the purview of the Bureau of Insurance to exercise authority over the false claims being made to the public about product line that MaineHealth is providing to the public. <br /><br />Further, it is imperative that the State of Maine provide oversight in this matter, as the federal 1986 National Childhood Injury Act has removed the rights of families to sue corporations like MaineHealth when members are harmed or killed by a vaccine. The result of this blanket liability protection which has been in place for decades is that physicians, medical care providers, health corporations and even government agencies routinely put out false safety and efficacy information, because there is no mechanism by which the public may directly hold them accountable for fraudulent claims. The public's right to take these entities into a civil court, force them testify under oath, have judgments rendered by a jury and have remedies be enforced by a judge has been removed. As a result, misinformation can be circulated by both malicious and merely uninformed parties, including doctors providing recommendations to patients in their offices. Bad faith parties and organizations who wish to make outright fraudulent claims are free to do so with out fear of legal reprisal from their customers, even if the worst possible outcome happens and the vaccination that was delivered under false information and/or coercion results in the death of a child.<br /><br />This complaint does not represent the total number of false statements made by Ms. Grantham and MaineHealth, but is a short complaint on the easily corrected fraud currently taking place. In light of their refusal to correct even these extremely obvious false statements, I believe that a full accounting of their vaccine safety claims is appropriate.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Further, Ms. Grantham in her professional, role has been quoted in the Portland Press Herald as advocating the elimination of the philosophical vaccine exemption in Maine. This would remove the right of children to a free and appropriate education if their parents did not choose to vaccinated as the state requests. As vaccines are legally classified by the federal government as “Unavoidably Unsafe” (which means they cannot be made safe for their intended use) and can result in serious diseases, disorders, disability, brain damage and death, it a civil rights matter that parents and individuals be free to exercise their right to informed consent, and to reject one or more vaccines ones self or ones child. It is also a civil rights matter that children be allowed equal access to a free and appropriate public education with out being impeded by discriminatory policies. In their actions in the last 6 months, I assert that MaineHealth has demonstrated a willingness commit fraud in order to achieve their goal of removing either families right to medical informed consent or the right to a public education for their children to increase vaccine sales.<br /><br />In no other area of medicine are these types of false claims on pharmaceutical products allowed. I hope that The Bureau of Insurance will take this matter seriously and exercise their authority here to protect Maine consumers against false vaccine safety claims.<br /><br /><br /><br />Attachment:</span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="62"></col> <col width="603"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Subject: </div></th> <td width="603">False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Date: </div></th> <td width="603">Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:45:00 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">From: </div></th> <td width="603">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">To: </div></th> <td width="603">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">CC: </div></th> <td width="603">Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Dodge Patstone &lt;patsta@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Ms. Grantham,<br /><br />This week on MPBN's Maine Calling, in response to a question about vaccine safety, you made the following claim:<br /><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MPBN: “Cassandra what kind of research is out there about the safety of vaccines?”<br /><br />Cassandra Grantham: “So what's really great is that is that many different organizations have put a lot of time and effort into understanding the safety and efficacy behind vaccines and there have been several recent studies that have actually come out looking at associations between vaccinations and different situations that kids may find themselves in, autism being one of them, but many others. And of course we can't do studies that actually force families not to immunize their children so that we can look at what we would call it a randomized controlled trial, it's just not fair. So what we have been able to do is look back over time at different populations of children and we've actually found that kids who are immunized, completely immunized with all of the vaccines according to the the schedule that Dr. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Blaisdell</span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">was mentioning the one that recommended by the CDC, that they have no higher risk of getting autism and some of these other developmental challenges that families face than those kids that delayed or did not receive any immunizations at all. So we're finding that there is research that is now delving deeper into this topic and actually proving that the CDC's recommended schedule is safe and it does work and it doesn't increase risks of other situations for kids.”</span></span></blockquote><div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To the best of my knowledge, this is a false claim, as no such research exists.&nbsp; This as testified to by <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html">Dr. Coleen Boyle</a>, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing <i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism</i> on November 29, 2012.&nbsp; In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated."&nbsp; <a href="http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s">http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s</a>(please see the notes in the video that addresses the claims made by Dr. Koren Boggs that such research exists in further detail.)<br /><br />My understanding of the history of this topic is that the first such request for a study was made by the FDA in 1981 after they removed mercury from over the counter products.&nbsp; FDA declined to ban it from vaccines, asking CDC to first do a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study to see if it increased health risks, however CDC declined to perform the study.<br /><br />The autism and vaccine injury communities have been asking for such a retrospective study to be done for more than a decade now, and health authorities have continued to refuse.&nbsp; Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007</span></span></span>(<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832</a>:) to force NIH to do such a study, and reintroduced such legislation in the years since.&nbsp; In response to what he learned from Dr. Boyle during the 2012 hearings, Rep Bill Posey (R-FL) joined with Maloney and introduced H.R. 1757, The Vaccine Safety Study Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1">https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1</a>) that would again compel HHS to perform the study that you claim already exists.&nbsp; <br /><br />The bill was not passed, nor to my knowledge has any vaccinated v. unvaccinated research on autism or any other developmental disabilities been published since Dr. Boyle offered her testimony before Congress.<br /><br /><b>As such it is appropriate for you to either produce the citation for this research that the vaccine injury community has been lobbying for, or to retract your false safety claims on MPBN for the product line you are representing.</b><br /><br />Your false claims are only made more egregious by the fact that you have publicly stated in the Portland Press Herald that, "Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal."&nbsp; It is my belief that you are purposely lying to the public in order to remove parental rights and deny Maine children a Free And Appropriate Education in order to promote sales of a product line whose lack of safety is thoroughly documented both by the federal government and the product packaging itself.&nbsp; This type of propaganda sales campaign should not be tolerated by any responsible medical professional, health organization, media outlet or legislator. (<a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/">http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/</a>)<br /><br />I await your response,</div><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Mother of a vaccine injured child<br />Co-author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Epidemic-Corporate-Coercive-Government/dp/1620872129">Vaccine Epidemic</a><br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="62"></col> <col width="603"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Subject: </div></th> <td width="603">RE: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Date: </div></th> <td width="603">Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:31:25 +0000</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">From: </div></th> <td width="603">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">To: </div></th> <td width="603">'Ginger Taylor' &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">CC: </div></th> <td width="603">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello Ginger ~</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thank you for listening to MPBN’s Maine Calling Show – it is great to know that we have reached such a wide audience with important vaccine messages.&nbsp; I want to clarify that I do not represent any product line or company other than MaineHealth, which is a health system which supports on-time childhood immunizations.&nbsp; I have never been paid by or consulted for a pharmaceutical or medical intervention company or agency. Please see below for MaineHealth’s official statement regarding childhood immunizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>MaineHealth supports the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.&nbsp; We believe that vaccinating children on-time, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), is one of the best ways to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases in our communities and keep children safe and healthy.</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In regards to my statements about vaccine safety, I based those on these studies.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1.</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2813%2900144-3/abstract">http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(13)00144-3/abstract</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">2.</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx">http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3.</span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract">http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I will not respond to future emails on this subject.&nbsp; </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Furthermore, I request that you cease and desist using my image on your blog, Facebook page and other websites you support and represent.&nbsp; </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Cassandra</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cassandra Cote Grantham, MA</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Program Director</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Childhood Immunizations and Raising Readers</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Community Health Improvement</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">MaineHealth</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">110 Free Street</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Portland, ME 04101</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Phone: 207-661-7578</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fax: 207-661-7547</span></span></span><br /><a href="mailto:cotec1@mainehealth.org"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cotec1@mainehealth.org</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;">&nbsp;</span>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. 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If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and attachments. <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="62"></col> <col width="603"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Subject: </div></th> <td width="603">Re: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Date: </div></th> <td width="603">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:37:29 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">From: </div></th> <td width="603">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">To: </div></th> <td width="603">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">CC: </div></th> <td width="603">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ms.&nbsp; Grantham,<br /><br />None of the citations you offer contain any research on autism risk, or any other developmental disabilities, in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children, which is the claim you made on Maine Calling.&nbsp; Again, no such publish research exists in any form.&nbsp; <br /><br />I therefore demand a retraction of the fraudulent safety claim by yourself, MaineHealth and MPBN.<br /><br />I will not cease using your image, as this is a very newsworthy story and the professional headshot of a medical corporation employee making false claims about the product safety of the pharmaceuticals that it sells is fair use of this image.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="62"></col> <col width="603"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Subject: </div></th> <td width="603">Request for Retraction of False Vaccine Safety Claims on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Date: </div></th> <td width="603">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:12:12 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">From: </div></th> <td width="603">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">To: </div></th> <td width="603">Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">CC: </div></th> <td width="603">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ms. Rooks, Mr. Smith and Mr. Vogelzang,<br /><br />On your December 1 episode of Maine Calling, Cassandra Grantham, a representative of MaineHealth, made a fraudulent safety claim on your show.&nbsp; I have copied you on the my email exchange with her, which details the false claim, my correction of the false information as supported by the Congressional testimony of the head of the CDC's Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and my request to Ms. Grantham for her to cite the multiple studies that she claim exist or retract her claim.<br /><br />As you can see, she has failed to produce any research comparing autism rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations and failed to retract her claim.<br /><br />I there for request that Maine Calling retract Ms. Grantham's claim in the same format which it was offered, noting the false claim on the archived version of the interview if MPBN chooses to leave it online.<br /><br />I further strongly encourage Maine Calling to perform an honest evaluation on why vaccine rates are low in Maine and falling nationally.&nbsp; As the educated mother of a vaccine injured child, I can attest to the real reason.&nbsp; It is because the liability protection given to the entire vaccine industry in 1986 has resulted in massive corruption in the vaccine program.&nbsp; Ms. Graham's behavior on your show is case in point.&nbsp; Medical providers and medical industry representatives can make any safety claims that they choose, even completely false claims, because there is no accountability mechanism in place for the public to hold them accountable for false claims.&nbsp; Even when a child is killed by a vaccine after a false claim like this is made to a parent coercing them into administering a vaccine that they would not have otherwise agreed to have delivered to their child, there is no recourse to hold anyone accountable, or even force them to stop making these false claims.&nbsp; So false claims like this one, once spoken by someone claiming to hold authority in vaccinated, simply continue to circulate and be repeated.&nbsp; <br /><br />No doubt Ms. Grantham's false claim will now be circulated by those who have heard your program, even medical professionals who administer vaccines to children.<br /><br />The vaccine show you did with these three women on December 1, was not just about vaccine rejection, it is the REASON for vaccine rejection.&nbsp; It is a real time example of how and why vaccine interests are alienating and loosing the public trust by abusing the public trust.&nbsp; Your guests correctly reported that the exodus from the vaccine program is being lead by educated parents who have serious misgivings of the safety and trustworthyness of the vaccine program, while they themselves were making false claims about the safety of the vaccine program, thereby proving the untrustworthy of the vaccine program.&nbsp; And MPBN is participating in this corruption by allowing false claims to made on your platform with out challenge or correction.<br /><br />I hope that the irony that a show you aired to raise confidence in the vaccination is actually destroying trust in the vaccination is not lost on you.&nbsp; <br /><br />Now this claim of Ms. Grantham is merely one of many problematic statements made by herself, MaineHealth, VaxMaineKids.org and Dr. Blaisdell, and I would be happy to go over the false information that they are sharing with the public under the guise of serving the public if you decide to do a proper investigation of the fraud taking place in the vaccine program both in Maine and at the federal level.<br /><br />But for now, I await a response on your retraction of this particular false statement.&nbsp; </span>I cannot imagine that MPBN would allow any medical professional, industry representative or government official to make such false claims about any other medical product line or medical program.&nbsp; I don't expect Maine Calling to allow this to stand either.<br /><br />Thank you for your consideration,<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><br /><br />No reply from MPBN as of this filing.<br /></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="62"></col> <col width="603"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Subject: </div></th> <td width="603">Information Requested on how to file a formal complaint against a Maine Health staffer for fraudulent claims</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Date: </div></th> <td width="603">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:25:15 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">From: </div></th> <td width="603">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">To: </div></th> <td width="603">William Caron &lt;Caronw@mainehealth.org&gt;, Kimberly Nemic &lt;nemeck@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">CC: </div></th> <td width="603">Rebecca Arseneault &lt;rarsenault@fchn.org&gt;, Deborah Deatrick, MPH &lt;deatrd@mainehealth.org&gt;, Robert Frank &lt;frankr1@mainehealth.org&gt;, Katie Fullam Harris &lt;harrik2@mainehealth.org&gt;, Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;, Joe Lawlor &lt;jlawlor@pressherald.com&gt;, Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear MaineHealth,<br /><br />This past week, Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth appeared on MPBN's Maine Calling and made a fraudulent vaccine safety claim. She reported to the public that there are several studies comparing vaccinated v. unvaccinated children that find no increase risk of autism and other developmental disabilities in children vaccinated according to the CDC's recommended schedule.&nbsp; <br /><br />In fact, no such research has ever been published.&nbsp; <br /><br />I contacted Ms. Grantham and asked that she cite the research she claims has been undertaken, or retract her statement.&nbsp; She not only failed to cite such studies, she actually cited a 2013 IOM report that confirmed that no such research exists in the medical literature, and that recommended against undertaking such research because of cost, time and difficulty.&nbsp; She has also failed to retract her fraudulent claim and says she will not be responding to me on this matter again.<br /><br />This is just the latest of several false vaccine safety research claims that Ms. Grantham has made on behalf of MaineHealth both in public and on the VaxMaineKids.org web site, a MaineHealth Childhood Immunizations Program project.&nbsp; Several of these false statements have been brought to her attention over the last five months, and she has failed to properly address them.&nbsp; I can therefore only assume that Ms. Grantham is a bad faith player and is purposefully misleading of Mainers on vaccine safety matters<br /><br />This is made all the more egregious as Ms. Grantham has been quoted in the <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/">Portland Press Herald</a> as stating that, “Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal,” of the work your organization is undertaking.&nbsp; It is unconscionable that MaineHealth would make fraudulent safety claims in order to advance the agenda of removing parental rights and depriving children of a free and appropriate public education if their families decline to participate in a medical program that presents severe adverse health risks including disability, brain damage and death.<br /><br />I wish to file a formal complaint against Ms. Grantham with MaineHealth.&nbsp; I believe that it is the duty of MaineHealth to review and retract Ms. Grantham's false vaccine safety claims and to exercise disciplinary action against Ms. Grantham, as well as clarify the organization's position on the rights of parents to receive full and accurate vaccine safety and efficacy information, and practice uncoerced informed consent in vaccination.<br /><br />I have forwarded the email exchanges with Ms. Grantham and MPBN below for your review.<br /><br />I am publicly documenting this process <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/12/mainehealthmaine-vax-kids-makes-false.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Please direct me to appropriate contact on this matter so I may offer a full account of the problem and offer MaineHealth my support in assuring that it is offering accurate, evidence based information on vaccine safety to the public.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Ginger Taylor<br />Brunswick, Maine</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Letter also forwarded to </span><a href="mailto:patientrelations@mmc.org">patientrelations@mmc.org</a><span style="color: black;">, no response as of this filing.</span></span></span></div></blockquote><br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To the Maine Department of Health and Human Services</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I would like to file a complaint against MaineHealth for making fraudulent statements concerning one of their product lines.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MaineHealth, both on the VaxMaineKids.org web site and during an interview on MPBN on December 1, have made false vaccine safety claims. I have contacted VaxMaineKids, MaineHealth and MPBN to ask for a retraction and correction of the false marketing messages that they are issuing to the public, but none of the organizations will properly address the issue.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">VaxMaineKids.org makes the false claims on their web site that:<br /><br />“</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.” <br /><br />And that, “No other medical study anywhere in the world has ever found a link between vaccines and autism. Not one.” (http://www.vaxmainekids.org/mythbuster-series-autism/)<br /><br />During an email exchange last summer with Cassandra Grantham, Program Director of Child Health at MaineHealth, initiated by Ms. Grantham after I had written about her work, I corrected the misinformation, sending VaxMaineKids a list with dozens of studies that link vaccines and autism. http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link Ms. Grantham failed to correct the false claims on the MaineHealth web site, and wrote that she was no longer interested in discussing the matter any further with me.<br /><br />Ms. Grantham, representing Maine Health, made further false claims on December 1</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on MPBN's Maine Calling, when she claimed that there were multiple studies comparing populations of unvaccinated children to children fully vaccinated according to the CDC schedule that have found no increased risk in autism among fully vaccinated children. <br /><br />In fact, no such research exists, as testified to by </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Col</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">l</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">een Boyle</a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on November 29, 2012. In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated." <br /><br />I wrote to Ms. Grantham to ask that she cite her sources or retract her false claim. In her response, she referred to three publications as sources for her information, none of which referenced a vaccinated v.. unvaccinated autism study. In fact, one of her references, a 2013 report by the Institute of Medicine on the current US vaccine program, addressed the lack vaccinated v. unvaccinated research as a whole, and specifically in regard to autism and other developmental disabilities, and notes that parents and the public have been asking for this research for some time. The IOM report recommends against performing such research, because, although they admit it can be accomplished and would be informative, it would also be costly, time consuming and difficult. <br /><br />Ms. Grantham actually replied to me with information that confirms my allegations against her false claim by MaineHealth.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have further contacted several staff members at MaineHealth to ask for a retraction and for clarification of their stance on a public policy. I have received no reply.<br /><br />Further, I have contacted both Maine Calling hosts and producers, as well as MPBN management, to ask for a retraction of these fraudulent claims, but none have replied. <br /><br />I have attached the email chains below.<br /><br />Further, it is imperative that the State of Maine provide oversight in this matter, as the federal 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has removed the rights of families to sue corporations like MaineHealth when members are harmed or killed by a vaccine. The result of this blanket liability protection which has been in place for decades is that physicians, medical care providers, health corporations and even government agencies routinely put out false safety and efficacy information, because there is no mechanism by which the public may directly hold them accountable for fraudulent claims. The public's right to take these entities into a civil court, force them to testify under oath, have judgments rendered by a jury and have remedies be enforced by a judge has been removed. As a result, misinformation can be circulated by both malicious and merely uninformed parties, including doctors providing recommendations to patients in their offices. Bad faith parties and organizations who wish to make outright fraudulent claims are free to do so without fear of legal reprisal from their customers, even if the worst possible outcome happens and the vaccination that was delivered under false information or coercion results in the death of a child.<br /><br />This complaint does not represent the total number of false statements made by Ms. Grantham and MaineHealth but is a short complaint on the easily corrected fraud currently taking place. In light of their refusal to correct even these extremely obvious false statements, I believe that a full accounting of their vaccine safety claims is appropriate.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Further, Ms. Grantham in her professional, role has been quoted in the Portland Press Herald as advocating the elimination of the philosophical vaccine exemption in Maine. This would remove the right of children to a free and appropriate education if their parents did not choose to vaccinate as the state requests. As vaccines are legally classified by the federal government as “Unavoidably Unsafe” (which means they cannot be made safe for their intended use) and can result in serious diseases, disorders, disability, brain damage and death, it a civil rights matter that parents and individuals be free to exercise their right to informed consent, and to reject one or more vaccines for one’s self or one’s child. It is also a civil rights matter that children be allowed equal access to a free and appropriate public education without being impeded by discriminatory policies. In their actions in the last 6 months, I assert that MaineHealth has demonstrated a willingness commit fraud in order to achieve their goal of removing either families’ rights to medical informed consent or the right to a public education for their children to increase vaccine sales.<br /><br />In no other area of medicine are these types of false claims on pharmaceutical products tolerated. I hope that Maine DHHS will take this matter seriously and exercise its authority here to protect Maine consumers against false vaccine safety claims.<br /><br /><br /><br />Attachment:</span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:45:00 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Dodge Patstone &lt;patsta@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Ms. Grantham,<br /><br />This week on MPBN's Maine Calling, in response to a question about vaccine safety, you made the following claim:<br /><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MPBN: “Cassandra what kind of research is out there about the safety of vaccines?”<br /><br />Cassandra Grantham: “So what's really great is that is that many different organizations have put a lot of time and effort into understanding the safety and efficacy behind vaccines and there have been several recent studies that have actually come out looking at associations between vaccinations and different situations that kids may find themselves in, autism being one of them, but many others. And of course we can't do studies that actually force families not to immunize their children so that we can look at what we would call it a randomized controlled trial, it's just not fair. So what we have been able to do is look back over time at different populations of children and we've actually found that kids who are immunized, completely immunized with all of the vaccines according to the the schedule that Dr. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Blaisdell</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">was mentioning the one that recommended by the CDC, that they have no higher risk of getting autism and some of these other developmental challenges that families face than those kids that delayed or did not receive any immunizations at all. So we're finding that there is research that is now delving deeper into this topic and actually proving that the CDC's recommended schedule is safe and it does work and it doesn't increase risks of other situations for kids.”</span></span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To the best of my knowledge, this is a false claim, as no such research exists.&nbsp; This as testified to by <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Coleen Boyle</a>, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing <i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism</i> on November 29, 2012.&nbsp; In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated."&nbsp; <a href="http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s" target="_top">http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s</a>(please see the notes in the video that addresses the claims made by Dr. Koren Boggs that such research exists in further detail.)<br /><br />My understanding of the history of this topic is that the first such request for a study was made by the FDA in 1981 after they removed mercury from over the counter products.&nbsp; FDA declined to ban it from vaccines, asking CDC to first do a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study to see if it increased health risks, however CDC declined to perform the study.<br /><br />The autism and vaccine injury communities have been asking for such a retrospective study to be done for more than a decade now, and health authorities have continued to refuse.&nbsp; Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007</span></span></span>(<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832" target="_top">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832</a>:) to force NIH to do such a study, and reintroduced such legislation in the years since.&nbsp; In response to what he learned from Dr. Boyle during the 2012 hearings, Rep Bill Posey (R-FL) joined with Maloney and introduced H.R. 1757, The Vaccine Safety Study Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1" target="_top">https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1</a>) that would again compel HHS to perform the study that you claim already exists.&nbsp; <br /><br />The bill was not passed, nor to my knowledge has any vaccinated v. unvaccinated research on autism or any other developmental disabilities been published since Dr. Boyle offered her testimony before Congress.<br /><br /><b>As such it is appropriate for you to either produce the citation for this research that the vaccine injury community has been lobbying for, or to retract your false safety claims on MPBN for the product line you are representing.</b><br /><br />Your false claims are only made more egregious by the fact that you have publicly stated in the Portland Press Herald that, "Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal."&nbsp; It is my belief that you are purposely lying to the public in order to remove parental rights and deny Maine children a Free And Appropriate Education in order to promote sales of a product line whose lack of safety is thoroughly documented both by the federal government and the product packaging itself.&nbsp; This type of propaganda sales campaign should not be tolerated by any responsible medical professional, health organization, media outlet or legislator. (<a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/</a>)<br /><br />I await your response,</div><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Mother of a vaccine injured child<br />Co-author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Epidemic-Corporate-Coercive-Government/dp/1620872129" target="_top">Vaccine Epidemic</a><br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">RE: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:31:25 +0000</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">'Ginger Taylor' &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello Ginger ~</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thank you for listening to MPBN’s Maine Calling Show – it is great to know that we have reached such a wide audience with important vaccine messages.&nbsp; I want to clarify that I do not represent any product line or company other than MaineHealth, which is a health system which supports on-time childhood immunizations.&nbsp; I have never been paid by or consulted for a pharmaceutical or medical intervention company or agency. Please see below for MaineHealth’s official statement regarding childhood immunizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>MaineHealth supports the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.&nbsp; We believe that vaccinating children on-time, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), is one of the best ways to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases in our communities and keep children safe and healthy.</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In regards to my statements about vaccine safety, I based those on these studies.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2813%2900144-3/abstract" target="_top">http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(13)00144-3/abstract</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx" target="_top">http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx</a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract" target="_top">http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract</a><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I will not respond to future emails on this subject.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Furthermore, I request that you cease and desist using my image on your blog, Facebook page and other websites you support and represent.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Cassandra</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cassandra Cote Grantham, MA</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Program Director</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Childhood Immunizations and Raising Readers</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Community Health Improvement</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">MaineHealth</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">110 Free Street</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Portland, ME 04101</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Phone: 207-661-7578</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fax: 207-661-7547</span></span></span><br /><a href="mailto:cotec1@mainehealth.org" target="_top"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cotec1@mainehealth.org</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;">&nbsp;</span>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. 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If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and attachments.<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Re: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:37:29 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms.&nbsp; Grantham,<br /><br />None of the citations you offer contain any research on autism risk, or any other developmental disabilities, in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children, which is the claim you made on Maine Calling.&nbsp; Again, no such publish research exists in any form.&nbsp; <br /><br />I therefore demand a retraction of the fraudulent safety claim by yourself, MaineHealth and MPBN.<br /><br />I will not cease using your image, as this is a very newsworthy story and the professional headshot of a medical corporation employee making false claims about the product safety of the pharmaceuticals that it sells is fair use of this image.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">Healt</a><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">hChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Request for Retraction of False Vaccine Safety Claims on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:12:12 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms. Rooks, Mr. Smith and Mr. Vogelzang,<br /><br />On your December 1 episode of Maine Calling, Cassandra Grantham, a representative of MaineHealth, made a fraudulent safety claim on your show.&nbsp; I have copied you on the my email exchange with her, which details the false claim, my correction of the false information as supported by the Congressional testimony of the head of the CDC's Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and my request to Ms. Grantham for her to cite the multiple studies that she claim exist or retract her claim.<br /><br />As you can see, she has failed to produce any research comparing autism rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations and failed to retract her claim.<br /><br />I there for request that Maine Calling retract Ms. Grantham's claim in the same format which it was offered, noting the false claim on the archived version of the interview if MPBN chooses to leave it online.<br /><br />I further strongly encourage Maine Calling to perform an honest evaluation on why vaccine rates are low in Maine and falling nationally.&nbsp; As the educated mother of a vaccine injured child, I can attest to the real reason.&nbsp; It is because the liability protection given to the entire vaccine industry in 1986 has resulted in massive corruption in the vaccine program.&nbsp; Ms. Graham's behavior on your show is case in point.&nbsp; Medical providers and medical industry representatives can make any safety claims that they choose, even completely false claims, because there is no accountability mechanism in place for the public to hold them accountable for false claims.&nbsp; Even when a child is killed by a vaccine after a false claim like this is made to a parent coercing them into administering a vaccine that they would not have otherwise agreed to have delivered to their child, there is no recourse to hold anyone accountable, or even force them to stop making these false claims.&nbsp; So false claims like this one, once spoken by someone claiming to hold authority in vaccinated, simply continue to circulate and be repeated.&nbsp; <br /><br />No doubt Ms. Grantham's false claim will now be circulated by those who have heard your program, even medical professionals who administer vaccines to children.<br /><br />The vaccine show you did with these three women on December 1, was not just about vaccine rejection, it is the REASON for vaccine rejection.&nbsp; It is a real time example of how and why vaccine interests are alienating and loosing the public trust by abusing the public trust.&nbsp; Your guests correctly reported that the exodus from the vaccine program is being lead by educated parents who have serious misgivings of the safety and trustworthyness of the vaccine program, while they themselves were making false claims about the safety of the vaccine program, thereby proving the untrustworthy of the vaccine program.&nbsp; And MPBN is participating in this corruption by allowing false claims to made on your platform with out challenge or correction.<br /><br />I hope that the irony that a show you aired to raise confidence in the vaccination is actually destroying trust in the vaccination is not lost on you.&nbsp; <br /><br />Now this claim of Ms. Grantham is merely one of many problematic statements made by herself, MaineHealth, VaxMaineKids.org and Dr. Blaisdell, and I would be happy to go over the false information that they are sharing with the public under the guise of serving the public if you decide to do a proper investigation of the fraud taking place in the vaccine program both in Maine and at the federal level.<br /><br />But for now, I await a response on your retraction of this particular false statement.&nbsp; </span>I cannot imagine that MPBN would allow any medical professional, industry representative or government official to make such false claims about any other medical product line or medical program.&nbsp; I don't expect Maine Calling to allow this to stand either.<br /><br />Thank you for your consideration,<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><br /><br />No reply from MPBN as of this filing.<br /></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Information Requested on how to file a formal complaint against a Maine Health staffer for fraudulent claims</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:25:15 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">William Caron &lt;Caronw@mainehealth.org&gt;, Kimberly Nemic &lt;nemeck@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Rebecca Arseneault &lt;rarsenault@fchn.org&gt;, Deborah Deatrick, MPH &lt;deatrd@mainehealth.org&gt;, Robert Frank &lt;frankr1@mainehealth.org&gt;, Katie Fullam Harris &lt;harrik2@mainehealth.org&gt;, Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;, Joe Lawlor &lt;jlawlor@pressherald.com&gt;, Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear MaineHealth,<br /><br />This past week, Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth appeared on MPBN's Maine Calling and made a fraudulent vaccine safety claim. She reported to the public that there are several studies comparing vaccinated v. unvaccinated children that find no increase risk of autism and other developmental disabilities in children vaccinated according to the CDC's recommended schedule.&nbsp; <br /><br />In fact, no such research has ever been published.&nbsp; <br /><br />I contacted Ms. Grantham and asked that she cite the research she claims has been undertaken, or retract her statement.&nbsp; She not only failed to cite such studies, she actually cited a 2013 IOM report that confirmed that no such research exists in the medical literature, and that recommended against undertaking such research because of cost, time and difficulty.&nbsp; She has also failed to retract her fraudulent claim and says she will not be responding to me on this matter again.<br /><br />This is just the latest of several false vaccine safety research claims that Ms. Grantham has made on behalf of MaineHealth both in public and on the VaxMaineKids.org web site, a MaineHealth Childhood Immunizations Program project.&nbsp; Several of these false statements have been brought to her attention over the last five months, and she has failed to properly address them.&nbsp; I can therefore only assume that Ms. Grantham is a bad faith player and is purposefully misleading of Mainers on vaccine safety matters<br /><br />This is made all the more egregious as Ms. Grantham has been quoted in the <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">Portland Press Herald</a> as stating that, “Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal,” of the work your organization is undertaking.&nbsp; It is unconscionable that MaineHealth would make fraudulent safety claims in order to advance the agenda of removing parental rights and depriving children of a free and appropriate public education if their families decline to participate in a medical program that presents severe adverse health risks including disability, brain damage and death.<br /><br />I wish to file a formal complaint against Ms. Grantham with MaineHealth.&nbsp; I believe that it is the duty of MaineHealth to review and retract Ms. Grantham's false vaccine safety claims and to exercise disciplinary action against Ms. Grantham, as well as clarify the organization's position on the rights of parents to receive full and accurate vaccine safety and efficacy information, and practice uncoerced informed consent in vaccination.<br /><br />I have forwarded the email exchanges with Ms. Grantham and MPBN below for your review.<br /><br />I am publicly documenting this process <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/12/mainehealthmaine-vax-kids-makes-false.html" target="_top">here</a>.<br /><br />Please direct me to appropriate contact on this matter so I may offer a full account of the problem and offer MaineHealth my support in assuring that it is offering accurate, evidence based information on vaccine safety to the public.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Ginger Taylor<br />Brunswick, Maine</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Letter also forwarded to </span></span><a href="mailto:patientrelations@mmc.org" target="_top"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">patientrelations@mmc.org</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, no response as of this filing.</span></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To the Maine Immunization Program</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I would like to file a complaint against MaineHealth for making fraudulent statements concerning one of their product lines.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MaineHealth, both on the VaxMaineKids.org web site and during an interview on MPBN on December 1, have made false vaccine safety claims. I have contacted VaxMaineKids, MaineHealth and MPBN to ask for a retraction and correction of the false marketing messages that they are issuing to the public, but none of the organizations will properly address the issue.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">VaxMaineKids.org makes the false claims on their web site that:<br /><br />“</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.” <br /><br />And that, “No other medical study anywhere in the world has ever found a link between vaccines and autism. Not one.” (http://www.vaxmainekids.org/mythbuster-series-autism/)<br /><br />During an email exchange last summer with Cassandra Grantham, Program Director of Child Health at MaineHealth, initiated by Ms. Grantham after I had written about her work, I corrected the misinformation, sending VaxMaineKids a list with dozens of studies that link vaccines and autism. http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link Ms. Grantham failed to correct the false claims on the MaineHealth web site, and wrote that she was no longer interested in discussing the matter any further with me.<br /><br />Ms. Grantham, representing Maine Health, made further false claims on December 1</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on MPBN's Maine Calling, when she claimed that there were multiple studies comparing populations of unvaccinated children to children fully vaccinated according to the CDC schedule that have found no increased risk in autism among fully vaccinated children. <br /><br />In fact, no such research exists, as testified to by </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Col</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">l</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">een Boyle</a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on November 29, 2012. In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated." <br /><br />I wrote to Ms. Grantham to ask that she cite her sources or retract her false claim. In her response, she referred to three publications as sources for her information, none of which referenced a vaccinated v.. unvaccinated autism study. In fact, one of her references, a 2013 report by the Institute of Medicine on the current US vaccine program, addressed the lack vaccinated v. unvaccinated research as a whole, and specifically in regard to autism and other developmental disabilities, and notes that parents and the public have been asking for this research for some time. The IOM report recommends against performing such research, because, although they admit it can be accomplished and would be informative, it would also be costly, time consuming and difficult. <br /><br />Ms. Grantham actually replied to me with information that confirms my allegations against her false claim by MaineHealth.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have further contacted several staff members at MaineHealth to ask for a retraction and for clarification of their stance on a public policy. I have received no reply.<br /><br />Further, I have contacted both Maine Calling hosts and producers, as well as MPBN management, to ask for a retraction of these fraudulent claims, but none have replied. <br /><br />I have attached the email chains below.<br /><br />Further, it is imperative that the State of Maine provide oversight in this matter, as the federal 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has removed the rights of families to sue corporations like MaineHealth when members are harmed or killed by a vaccine. The result of this blanket liability protection which has been in place for decades is that physicians, medical care providers, health corporations and even government agencies routinely put out false safety and efficacy information, because there is no mechanism by which the public may directly hold them accountable for fraudulent claims. The public's right to take these entities into a civil court, force them to testify under oath, have judgments rendered by a jury and have remedies be enforced by a judge has been removed. As a result, misinformation can be circulated by both malicious and merely uninformed parties, including doctors providing recommendations to patients in their offices. Bad faith parties and organizations who wish to make outright fraudulent claims are free to do so without fear of legal reprisal from their customers, even if the worst possible outcome happens and the vaccination that was delivered under false information or coercion results in the death of a child.<br /><br />This complaint does not represent the total number of false statements made by Ms. Grantham and MaineHealth but is a short complaint on the easily corrected fraud currently taking place. In light of their refusal to correct even these extremely obvious false statements, I believe that a full accounting of their vaccine safety claims is appropriate.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Further, Ms. Grantham in her professional, role has been quoted in the Portland Press Herald as advocating the elimination of the philosophical vaccine exemption in Maine. This would remove the right of children to a free and appropriate education if their parents did not choose to vaccinate as the state requests. As vaccines are legally classified by the federal government as “Unavoidably Unsafe” (which means they cannot be made safe for their intended use) and can result in serious diseases, disorders, disability, brain damage and death, it a civil rights matter that parents and individuals be free to exercise their right to informed consent, and to reject one or more vaccines for one’s self or one’s child. It is also a civil rights matter that children be allowed equal access to a free and appropriate public education without being impeded by discriminatory policies. In their actions in the last 6 months, I assert that MaineHealth has demonstrated a willingness commit fraud in order to achieve their goal of removing either families’ rights to medical informed consent or the right to a public education for their children to increase vaccine sales.<br /><br />In no other area of medicine are these types of false claims on pharmaceutical products tolerated. I hope that the Maine Immunization Program will take this matter seriously and perform its duty in this case to protect Maine consumers against false vaccine safety claims.<br /><br /><br /><br />Attachment:</span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:45:00 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Dodge Patstone &lt;patsta@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Ms. Grantham,<br /><br />This week on MPBN's Maine Calling, in response to a question about vaccine safety, you made the following claim:<br /><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MPBN: “Cassandra what kind of research is out there about the safety of vaccines?”<br /><br />Cassandra Grantham: “So what's really great is that is that many different organizations have put a lot of time and effort into understanding the safety and efficacy behind vaccines and there have been several recent studies that have actually come out looking at associations between vaccinations and different situations that kids may find themselves in, autism being one of them, but many others. And of course we can't do studies that actually force families not to immunize their children so that we can look at what we would call it a randomized controlled trial, it's just not fair. So what we have been able to do is look back over time at different populations of children and we've actually found that kids who are immunized, completely immunized with all of the vaccines according to the the schedule that Dr. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Blaisdell</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">was mentioning the one that recommended by the CDC, that they have no higher risk of getting autism and some of these other developmental challenges that families face than those kids that delayed or did not receive any immunizations at all. So we're finding that there is research that is now delving deeper into this topic and actually proving that the CDC's recommended schedule is safe and it does work and it doesn't increase risks of other situations for kids.”</span></span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To the best of my knowledge, this is a false claim, as no such research exists.&nbsp; This as testified to by <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Coleen Boyle</a>, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing <i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism</i> on November 29, 2012.&nbsp; In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated."&nbsp; <a href="http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s" target="_top">http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s</a>(please see the notes in the video that addresses the claims made by Dr. Koren Boggs that such research exists in further detail.)<br /><br />My understanding of the history of this topic is that the first such request for a study was made by the FDA in 1981 after they removed mercury from over the counter products.&nbsp; FDA declined to ban it from vaccines, asking CDC to first do a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study to see if it increased health risks, however CDC declined to perform the study.<br /><br />The autism and vaccine injury communities have been asking for such a retrospective study to be done for more than a decade now, and health authorities have continued to refuse.&nbsp; Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007</span></span></span>(<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832" target="_top">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832</a>:) to force NIH to do such a study, and reintroduced such legislation in the years since.&nbsp; In response to what he learned from Dr. Boyle during the 2012 hearings, Rep Bill Posey (R-FL) joined with Maloney and introduced H.R. 1757, The Vaccine Safety Study Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1" target="_top">https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1</a>) that would again compel HHS to perform the study that you claim already exists.&nbsp; <br /><br />The bill was not passed, nor to my knowledge has any vaccinated v. unvaccinated research on autism or any other developmental disabilities been published since Dr. Boyle offered her testimony before Congress.<br /><br /><b>As such it is appropriate for you to either produce the citation for this research that the vaccine injury community has been lobbying for, or to retract your false safety claims on MPBN for the product line you are representing.</b><br /><br />Your false claims are only made more egregious by the fact that you have publicly stated in the Portland Press Herald that, "Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal."&nbsp; It is my belief that you are purposely lying to the public in order to remove parental rights and deny Maine children a Free And Appropriate Education in order to promote sales of a product line whose lack of safety is thoroughly documented both by the federal government and the product packaging itself.&nbsp; This type of propaganda sales campaign should not be tolerated by any responsible medical professional, health organization, media outlet or legislator. (<a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/</a>)<br /><br />I await your response,</div><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Mother of a vaccine injured child<br />Co-author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Epidemic-Corporate-Coercive-Government/dp/1620872129" target="_top">Vaccine Epidemic</a><br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">RE: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:31:25 +0000</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">'Ginger Taylor' &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello Ginger ~</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thank you for listening to MPBN’s Maine Calling Show – it is great to know that we have reached such a wide audience with important vaccine messages.&nbsp; I want to clarify that I do not represent any product line or company other than MaineHealth, which is a health system which supports on-time childhood immunizations.&nbsp; I have never been paid by or consulted for a pharmaceutical or medical intervention company or agency. Please see below for MaineHealth’s official statement regarding childhood immunizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>MaineHealth supports the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.&nbsp; We believe that vaccinating children on-time, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), is one of the best ways to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases in our communities and keep children safe and healthy.</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In regards to my statements about vaccine safety, I based those on these studies.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2813%2900144-3/abstract" target="_top">http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(13)00144-3/abstract</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx" target="_top">http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx</a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract" target="_top">http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract</a><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I will not respond to future emails on this subject.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Furthermore, I request that you cease and desist using my image on your blog, Facebook page and other websites you support and represent.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Cassandra</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cassandra Cote Grantham, MA</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Program Director</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Childhood Immunizations and Raising Readers</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Community Health Improvement</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">MaineHealth</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">110 Free Street</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Portland, ME 04101</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Phone: 207-661-7578</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fax: 207-661-7547</span></span></span><br /><a href="mailto:cotec1@mainehealth.org" target="_top"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cotec1@mainehealth.org</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;">&nbsp;</span>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. 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If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and attachments.<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Re: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:37:29 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms.&nbsp; Grantham,<br /><br />None of the citations you offer contain any research on autism risk, or any other developmental disabilities, in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children, which is the claim you made on Maine Calling.&nbsp; Again, no such publish research exists in any form.&nbsp; <br /><br />I therefore demand a retraction of the fraudulent safety claim by yourself, MaineHealth and MPBN.<br /><br />I will not cease using your image, as this is a very newsworthy story and the professional headshot of a medical corporation employee making false claims about the product safety of the pharmaceuticals that it sells is fair use of this image.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">Healt</a><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">hChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Request for Retraction of False Vaccine Safety Claims on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:12:12 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms. Rooks, Mr. Smith and Mr. Vogelzang,<br /><br />On your December 1 episode of Maine Calling, Cassandra Grantham, a representative of MaineHealth, made a fraudulent safety claim on your show.&nbsp; I have copied you on the my email exchange with her, which details the false claim, my correction of the false information as supported by the Congressional testimony of the head of the CDC's Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and my request to Ms. Grantham for her to cite the multiple studies that she claim exist or retract her claim.<br /><br />As you can see, she has failed to produce any research comparing autism rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations and failed to retract her claim.<br /><br />I there for request that Maine Calling retract Ms. Grantham's claim in the same format which it was offered, noting the false claim on the archived version of the interview if MPBN chooses to leave it online.<br /><br />I further strongly encourage Maine Calling to perform an honest evaluation on why vaccine rates are low in Maine and falling nationally.&nbsp; As the educated mother of a vaccine injured child, I can attest to the real reason.&nbsp; It is because the liability protection given to the entire vaccine industry in 1986 has resulted in massive corruption in the vaccine program.&nbsp; Ms. Graham's behavior on your show is case in point.&nbsp; Medical providers and medical industry representatives can make any safety claims that they choose, even completely false claims, because there is no accountability mechanism in place for the public to hold them accountable for false claims.&nbsp; Even when a child is killed by a vaccine after a false claim like this is made to a parent coercing them into administering a vaccine that they would not have otherwise agreed to have delivered to their child, there is no recourse to hold anyone accountable, or even force them to stop making these false claims.&nbsp; So false claims like this one, once spoken by someone claiming to hold authority in vaccinated, simply continue to circulate and be repeated.&nbsp; <br /><br />No doubt Ms. Grantham's false claim will now be circulated by those who have heard your program, even medical professionals who administer vaccines to children.<br /><br />The vaccine show you did with these three women on December 1, was not just about vaccine rejection, it is the REASON for vaccine rejection.&nbsp; It is a real time example of how and why vaccine interests are alienating and loosing the public trust by abusing the public trust.&nbsp; Your guests correctly reported that the exodus from the vaccine program is being lead by educated parents who have serious misgivings of the safety and trustworthyness of the vaccine program, while they themselves were making false claims about the safety of the vaccine program, thereby proving the untrustworthy of the vaccine program.&nbsp; And MPBN is participating in this corruption by allowing false claims to made on your platform with out challenge or correction.<br /><br />I hope that the irony that a show you aired to raise confidence in the vaccination is actually destroying trust in the vaccination is not lost on you.&nbsp; <br /><br />Now this claim of Ms. Grantham is merely one of many problematic statements made by herself, MaineHealth, VaxMaineKids.org and Dr. Blaisdell, and I would be happy to go over the false information that they are sharing with the public under the guise of serving the public if you decide to do a proper investigation of the fraud taking place in the vaccine program both in Maine and at the federal level.<br /><br />But for now, I await a response on your retraction of this particular false statement.&nbsp; </span>I cannot imagine that MPBN would allow any medical professional, industry representative or government official to make such false claims about any other medical product line or medical program.&nbsp; I don't expect Maine Calling to allow this to stand either.<br /><br />Thank you for your consideration,<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><br /><br />No reply from MPBN as of this filing.<br /></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Information Requested on how to file a formal complaint against a Maine Health staffer for fraudulent claims</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:25:15 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">William Caron &lt;Caronw@mainehealth.org&gt;, Kimberly Nemic &lt;nemeck@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Rebecca Arseneault &lt;rarsenault@fchn.org&gt;, Deborah Deatrick, MPH &lt;deatrd@mainehealth.org&gt;, Robert Frank &lt;frankr1@mainehealth.org&gt;, Katie Fullam Harris &lt;harrik2@mainehealth.org&gt;, Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;, Joe Lawlor &lt;jlawlor@pressherald.com&gt;, Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear MaineHealth,<br /><br />This past week, Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth appeared on MPBN's Maine Calling and made a fraudulent vaccine safety claim. She reported to the public that there are several studies comparing vaccinated v. unvaccinated children that find no increase risk of autism and other developmental disabilities in children vaccinated according to the CDC's recommended schedule.&nbsp; <br /><br />In fact, no such research has ever been published.&nbsp; <br /><br />I contacted Ms. Grantham and asked that she cite the research she claims has been undertaken, or retract her statement.&nbsp; She not only failed to cite such studies, she actually cited a 2013 IOM report that confirmed that no such research exists in the medical literature, and that recommended against undertaking such research because of cost, time and difficulty.&nbsp; She has also failed to retract her fraudulent claim and says she will not be responding to me on this matter again.<br /><br />This is just the latest of several false vaccine safety research claims that Ms. Grantham has made on behalf of MaineHealth both in public and on the VaxMaineKids.org web site, a MaineHealth Childhood Immunizations Program project.&nbsp; Several of these false statements have been brought to her attention over the last five months, and she has failed to properly address them.&nbsp; I can therefore only assume that Ms. Grantham is a bad faith player and is purposefully misleading of Mainers on vaccine safety matters<br /><br />This is made all the more egregious as Ms. Grantham has been quoted in the <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">Portland Press Herald</a> as stating that, “Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal,” of the work your organization is undertaking.&nbsp; It is unconscionable that MaineHealth would make fraudulent safety claims in order to advance the agenda of removing parental rights and depriving children of a free and appropriate public education if their families decline to participate in a medical program that presents severe adverse health risks including disability, brain damage and death.<br /><br />I wish to file a formal complaint against Ms. Grantham with MaineHealth.&nbsp; I believe that it is the duty of MaineHealth to review and retract Ms. Grantham's false vaccine safety claims and to exercise disciplinary action against Ms. Grantham, as well as clarify the organization's position on the rights of parents to receive full and accurate vaccine safety and efficacy information, and practice uncoerced informed consent in vaccination.<br /><br />I have forwarded the email exchanges with Ms. Grantham and MPBN below for your review.<br /><br />I am publicly documenting this process <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/12/mainehealthmaine-vax-kids-makes-false.html" target="_top">here</a>.<br /><br />Please direct me to appropriate contact on this matter so I may offer a full account of the problem and offer MaineHealth my support in assuring that it is offering accurate, evidence based information on vaccine safety to the public.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Ginger Taylor<br />Brunswick, Maine</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Letter also forwarded to </span></span><a href="mailto:patientrelations@mmc.org" target="_top"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">patientrelations@mmc.org</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, no response as of this filing.</span></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To the Maine Immunization Coalition</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I would like to file a complaint against MaineHealth, which I believe is a member of the Maine Immunization Coalition and whose web site, VaxMaineKids.org is supported by your coalition, for making fraudulent statements concerning one of their product lines.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MaineHealth, both on the VaxMaineKids.org web site and during an interview on MPBN on December 1, have made false vaccine safety claims. I have contacted VaxMaineKids, MaineHealth and MPBN to ask for a retraction and correction of the false marketing messages that they are issuing to the public, but none of the organizations will properly address the issue.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">VaxMaineKids.org makes the false claims on their web site that:<br /><br />“</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.” <br /><br />And that, “No other medical study anywhere in the world has ever found a link between vaccines and autism. Not one.” (http://www.vaxmainekids.org/mythbuster-series-autism/)<br /><br />During an email exchange last summer with Cassandra Grantham, Program Director of Child Health at MaineHealth, initiated by Ms. Grantham after I had written about her work, I corrected the misinformation, sending VaxMaineKids a list with dozens of studies that link vaccines and autism. http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link Ms. Grantham failed to correct the false claims on the MaineHealth web site, and wrote that she was no longer interested in discussing the matter any further with me.<br /><br />Ms. Grantham, representing Maine Health, made further false claims on December 1</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on MPBN's Maine Calling, when she claimed that there were multiple studies comparing populations of unvaccinated children to children fully vaccinated according to the CDC schedule that have found no increased risk in autism among fully vaccinated children. <br /><br />In fact, no such research exists, as testified to by </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Col</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">l</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">een Boyle</a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on November 29, 2012. In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated." <br /><br />I wrote to Ms. Grantham to ask that she cite her sources or retract her false claim. In her response, she referred to three publications as sources for her information, none of which referenced a vaccinated v.. unvaccinated autism study. In fact, one of her references, a 2013 report by the Institute of Medicine on the current US vaccine program, addressed the lack vaccinated v. unvaccinated research as a whole, and specifically in regard to autism and other developmental disabilities, and notes that parents and the public have been asking for this research for some time. The IOM report recommends against performing such research, because, although they admit it can be accomplished and would be informative, it would also be costly, time consuming and difficult. <br /><br />Ms. Grantham actually replied to me with information that confirms my allegations against her false claim by MaineHealth.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have further contacted several staff members at MaineHealth to ask for a retraction and for clarification of their stance on a public policy. I have received no reply.<br /><br />Further, I have contacted both Maine Calling hosts and producers, as well as MPBN management, to ask for a retraction of these fraudulent claims, but none have replied. <br /><br />I have attached the email chains below.<br /><br />It is imperative that vaccine promotional programs are accurate in their claims, as the federal 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has removed the rights of families to sue corporations like MaineHealth when members are harmed or killed by a vaccine. The result of this blanket liability protection which has been in place for decades is that physicians, medical care providers, health corporations and even government agencies routinely put out false safety and efficacy information, because there is no mechanism by which the public may directly hold them accountable for fraudulent claims. The public's right to take these entities into a civil court, force them to testify under oath, have judgments rendered by a jury and have remedies be enforced by a judge has been removed. As a result, misinformation can be circulated by both malicious and merely uninformed parties, including doctors providing recommendations to patients in their offices. Bad faith parties and organizations who wish to make outright fraudulent claims are free to do so without fear of legal reprisal from their customers, even if the worst possible outcome happens and the vaccination that was delivered under false information or coercion results in the death of a child.<br /><br />This complaint does not represent the total number of false statements made by Ms. Grantham and MaineHealth but is a short complaint on the easily corrected fraud currently taking place. In light of their refusal to correct even these extremely obvious false statements, I believe that a full accounting of their vaccine safety claims is appropriate.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Further, Ms. Grantham in her professional, role has been quoted in the Portland Press Herald as advocating the elimination of the philosophical vaccine exemption in Maine. This would remove the right of children to a free and appropriate education if their parents did not choose to vaccinate as the state requests. As vaccines are legally classified by the federal government as “Unavoidably Unsafe” (which means they cannot be made safe for their intended use) and can result in serious diseases, disorders, disability, brain damage and death, it a civil rights matter that parents and individuals be free to exercise their right to informed consent, and to reject one or more vaccines for one’s self or one’s child. It is also a civil rights matter that children be allowed equal access to a free and appropriate public education without being impeded by discriminatory policies. In their actions in the last 6 months, I assert that MaineHealth has demonstrated a willingness commit fraud in order to achieve their goal of removing either families’ rights to medical informed consent or the right to a public education for their children to increase vaccine sales.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I would hope that the Maine Immunization Coalition's work to increase vaccine uptake rates would not include offering disinformation to the public to obtain their consent to vaccinate, and that you will correct your member's false safety claims, insisting they retract these fraudulent statements, which only further erode trust in the vaccine program you are promoting.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br />Attachment:</span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:45:00 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Dodge Patstone &lt;patsta@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Ms. Grantham,<br /><br />This week on MPBN's Maine Calling, in response to a question about vaccine safety, you made the following claim:<br /><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MPBN: “Cassandra what kind of research is out there about the safety of vaccines?”<br /><br />Cassandra Grantham: “So what's really great is that is that many different organizations have put a lot of time and effort into understanding the safety and efficacy behind vaccines and there have been several recent studies that have actually come out looking at associations between vaccinations and different situations that kids may find themselves in, autism being one of them, but many others. And of course we can't do studies that actually force families not to immunize their children so that we can look at what we would call it a randomized controlled trial, it's just not fair. So what we have been able to do is look back over time at different populations of children and we've actually found that kids who are immunized, completely immunized with all of the vaccines according to the the schedule that Dr. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Blaisdell</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">was mentioning the one that recommended by the CDC, that they have no higher risk of getting autism and some of these other developmental challenges that families face than those kids that delayed or did not receive any immunizations at all. So we're finding that there is research that is now delving deeper into this topic and actually proving that the CDC's recommended schedule is safe and it does work and it doesn't increase risks of other situations for kids.”</span></span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To the best of my knowledge, this is a false claim, as no such research exists.&nbsp; This as testified to by <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Coleen Boyle</a>, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing <i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism</i> on November 29, 2012.&nbsp; In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated."&nbsp; <a href="http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s" target="_top">http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s</a>(please see the notes in the video that addresses the claims made by Dr. Koren Boggs that such research exists in further detail.)<br /><br />My understanding of the history of this topic is that the first such request for a study was made by the FDA in 1981 after they removed mercury from over the counter products.&nbsp; FDA declined to ban it from vaccines, asking CDC to first do a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study to see if it increased health risks, however CDC declined to perform the study.<br /><br />The autism and vaccine injury communities have been asking for such a retrospective study to be done for more than a decade now, and health authorities have continued to refuse.&nbsp; Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007</span></span></span>(<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832" target="_top">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832</a>:) to force NIH to do such a study, and reintroduced such legislation in the years since.&nbsp; In response to what he learned from Dr. Boyle during the 2012 hearings, Rep Bill Posey (R-FL) joined with Maloney and introduced H.R. 1757, The Vaccine Safety Study Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1" target="_top">https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1</a>) that would again compel HHS to perform the study that you claim already exists.&nbsp; <br /><br />The bill was not passed, nor to my knowledge has any vaccinated v. unvaccinated research on autism or any other developmental disabilities been published since Dr. Boyle offered her testimony before Congress.<br /><br /><b>As such it is appropriate for you to either produce the citation for this research that the vaccine injury community has been lobbying for, or to retract your false safety claims on MPBN for the product line you are representing.</b><br /><br />Your false claims are only made more egregious by the fact that you have publicly stated in the Portland Press Herald that, "Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal."&nbsp; It is my belief that you are purposely lying to the public in order to remove parental rights and deny Maine children a Free And Appropriate Education in order to promote sales of a product line whose lack of safety is thoroughly documented both by the federal government and the product packaging itself.&nbsp; This type of propaganda sales campaign should not be tolerated by any responsible medical professional, health organization, media outlet or legislator. (<a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/</a>)<br /><br />I await your response,</div><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Mother of a vaccine injured child<br />Co-author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Epidemic-Corporate-Coercive-Government/dp/1620872129" target="_top">Vaccine Epidemic</a><br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">RE: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:31:25 +0000</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">'Ginger Taylor' &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello Ginger ~</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thank you for listening to MPBN’s Maine Calling Show – it is great to know that we have reached such a wide audience with important vaccine messages.&nbsp; I want to clarify that I do not represent any product line or company other than MaineHealth, which is a health system which supports on-time childhood immunizations.&nbsp; I have never been paid by or consulted for a pharmaceutical or medical intervention company or agency. Please see below for MaineHealth’s official statement regarding childhood immunizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>MaineHealth supports the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.&nbsp; We believe that vaccinating children on-time, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), is one of the best ways to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases in our communities and keep children safe and healthy.</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In regards to my statements about vaccine safety, I based those on these studies.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2813%2900144-3/abstract" target="_top">http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(13)00144-3/abstract</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx" target="_top">http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx</a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract" target="_top">http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract</a><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I will not respond to future emails on this subject.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Furthermore, I request that you cease and desist using my image on your blog, Facebook page and other websites you support and represent.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Cassandra</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cassandra Cote Grantham, MA</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Program Director</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Childhood Immunizations and Raising Readers</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Community Health Improvement</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">MaineHealth</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">110 Free Street</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Portland, ME 04101</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Phone: 207-661-7578</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fax: 207-661-7547</span></span></span><br /><a href="mailto:cotec1@mainehealth.org" target="_top"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cotec1@mainehealth.org</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;">&nbsp;</span>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. 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If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and attachments.<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Re: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:37:29 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms.&nbsp; Grantham,<br /><br />None of the citations you offer contain any research on autism risk, or any other developmental disabilities, in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children, which is the claim you made on Maine Calling.&nbsp; Again, no such publish research exists in any form.&nbsp; <br /><br />I therefore demand a retraction of the fraudulent safety claim by yourself, MaineHealth and MPBN.<br /><br />I will not cease using your image, as this is a very newsworthy story and the professional headshot of a medical corporation employee making false claims about the product safety of the pharmaceuticals that it sells is fair use of this image.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">Healt</a><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">hChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Request for Retraction of False Vaccine Safety Claims on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:12:12 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms. Rooks, Mr. Smith and Mr. Vogelzang,<br /><br />On your December 1 episode of Maine Calling, Cassandra Grantham, a representative of MaineHealth, made a fraudulent safety claim on your show.&nbsp; I have copied you on the my email exchange with her, which details the false claim, my correction of the false information as supported by the Congressional testimony of the head of the CDC's Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and my request to Ms. Grantham for her to cite the multiple studies that she claim exist or retract her claim.<br /><br />As you can see, she has failed to produce any research comparing autism rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations and failed to retract her claim.<br /><br />I there for request that Maine Calling retract Ms. Grantham's claim in the same format which it was offered, noting the false claim on the archived version of the interview if MPBN chooses to leave it online.<br /><br />I further strongly encourage Maine Calling to perform an honest evaluation on why vaccine rates are low in Maine and falling nationally.&nbsp; As the educated mother of a vaccine injured child, I can attest to the real reason.&nbsp; It is because the liability protection given to the entire vaccine industry in 1986 has resulted in massive corruption in the vaccine program.&nbsp; Ms. Graham's behavior on your show is case in point.&nbsp; Medical providers and medical industry representatives can make any safety claims that they choose, even completely false claims, because there is no accountability mechanism in place for the public to hold them accountable for false claims.&nbsp; Even when a child is killed by a vaccine after a false claim like this is made to a parent coercing them into administering a vaccine that they would not have otherwise agreed to have delivered to their child, there is no recourse to hold anyone accountable, or even force them to stop making these false claims.&nbsp; So false claims like this one, once spoken by someone claiming to hold authority in vaccinated, simply continue to circulate and be repeated.&nbsp; <br /><br />No doubt Ms. Grantham's false claim will now be circulated by those who have heard your program, even medical professionals who administer vaccines to children.<br /><br />The vaccine show you did with these three women on December 1, was not just about vaccine rejection, it is the REASON for vaccine rejection.&nbsp; It is a real time example of how and why vaccine interests are alienating and loosing the public trust by abusing the public trust.&nbsp; Your guests correctly reported that the exodus from the vaccine program is being lead by educated parents who have serious misgivings of the safety and trustworthyness of the vaccine program, while they themselves were making false claims about the safety of the vaccine program, thereby proving the untrustworthy of the vaccine program.&nbsp; And MPBN is participating in this corruption by allowing false claims to made on your platform with out challenge or correction.<br /><br />I hope that the irony that a show you aired to raise confidence in the vaccination is actually destroying trust in the vaccination is not lost on you.&nbsp; <br /><br />Now this claim of Ms. Grantham is merely one of many problematic statements made by herself, MaineHealth, VaxMaineKids.org and Dr. Blaisdell, and I would be happy to go over the false information that they are sharing with the public under the guise of serving the public if you decide to do a proper investigation of the fraud taking place in the vaccine program both in Maine and at the federal level.<br /><br />But for now, I await a response on your retraction of this particular false statement.&nbsp; </span>I cannot imagine that MPBN would allow any medical professional, industry representative or government official to make such false claims about any other medical product line or medical program.&nbsp; I don't expect Maine Calling to allow this to stand either.<br /><br />Thank you for your consideration,<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><br /><br />No reply from MPBN as of this filing.<br /></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Information Requested on how to file a formal complaint against a Maine Health staffer for fraudulent claims</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:25:15 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">William Caron &lt;Caronw@mainehealth.org&gt;, Kimberly Nemic &lt;nemeck@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Rebecca Arseneault &lt;rarsenault@fchn.org&gt;, Deborah Deatrick, MPH &lt;deatrd@mainehealth.org&gt;, Robert Frank &lt;frankr1@mainehealth.org&gt;, Katie Fullam Harris &lt;harrik2@mainehealth.org&gt;, Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;, Joe Lawlor &lt;jlawlor@pressherald.com&gt;, Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear MaineHealth,<br /><br />This past week, Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth appeared on MPBN's Maine Calling and made a fraudulent vaccine safety claim. She reported to the public that there are several studies comparing vaccinated v. unvaccinated children that find no increase risk of autism and other developmental disabilities in children vaccinated according to the CDC's recommended schedule.&nbsp; <br /><br />In fact, no such research has ever been published.&nbsp; <br /><br />I contacted Ms. Grantham and asked that she cite the research she claims has been undertaken, or retract her statement.&nbsp; She not only failed to cite such studies, she actually cited a 2013 IOM report that confirmed that no such research exists in the medical literature, and that recommended against undertaking such research because of cost, time and difficulty.&nbsp; She has also failed to retract her fraudulent claim and says she will not be responding to me on this matter again.<br /><br />This is just the latest of several false vaccine safety research claims that Ms. Grantham has made on behalf of MaineHealth both in public and on the VaxMaineKids.org web site, a MaineHealth Childhood Immunizations Program project.&nbsp; Several of these false statements have been brought to her attention over the last five months, and she has failed to properly address them.&nbsp; I can therefore only assume that Ms. Grantham is a bad faith player and is purposefully misleading of Mainers on vaccine safety matters<br /><br />This is made all the more egregious as Ms. Grantham has been quoted in the <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">Portland Press Herald</a> as stating that, “Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal,” of the work your organization is undertaking.&nbsp; It is unconscionable that MaineHealth would make fraudulent safety claims in order to advance the agenda of removing parental rights and depriving children of a free and appropriate public education if their families decline to participate in a medical program that presents severe adverse health risks including disability, brain damage and death.<br /><br />I wish to file a formal complaint against Ms. Grantham with MaineHealth.&nbsp; I believe that it is the duty of MaineHealth to review and retract Ms. Grantham's false vaccine safety claims and to exercise disciplinary action against Ms. Grantham, as well as clarify the organization's position on the rights of parents to receive full and accurate vaccine safety and efficacy information, and practice uncoerced informed consent in vaccination.<br /><br />I have forwarded the email exchanges with Ms. Grantham and MPBN below for your review.<br /><br />I am publicly documenting this process <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/12/mainehealthmaine-vax-kids-makes-false.html" target="_top">here</a>.<br /><br />Please direct me to appropriate contact on this matter so I may offer a full account of the problem and offer MaineHealth my support in assuring that it is offering accurate, evidence based information on vaccine safety to the public.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Ginger Taylor<br />Brunswick, Maine</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Letter also forwarded to </span></span><a href="mailto:patientrelations@mmc.org" target="_top"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">patientrelations@mmc.org</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, no response as of this filing.</span></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To the Maine Department of Health and Human Services</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I would like to file a complaint against MaineHealth for making fraudulent statements concerning one of their product lines.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MaineHealth, both on the VaxMaineKids.org web site and during an interview on MPBN on December 1, have made false vaccine safety claims. I have contacted VaxMaineKids, MaineHealth and MPBN to ask for a retraction and correction of the false marketing messages that they are issuing to the public, but none of the organizations will properly address the issue.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">VaxMaineKids.org makes the false claims on their web site that:<br /><br />“</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.” <br /><br />And that, “No other medical study anywhere in the world has ever found a link between vaccines and autism. Not one.” (http://www.vaxmainekids.org/mythbuster-series-autism/)<br /><br />During an email exchange last summer with Cassandra Grantham, Program Director of Child Health at MaineHealth, initiated by Ms. Grantham after I had written about her work, I corrected the misinformation, sending VaxMaineKids a list with dozens of studies that link vaccines and autism. http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link Ms. Grantham failed to correct the false claims on the MaineHealth web site, and wrote that she was no longer interested in discussing the matter any further with me.<br /><br />Ms. Grantham, representing Maine Health, made further false claims on December 1</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on MPBN's Maine Calling, when she claimed that there were multiple studies comparing populations of unvaccinated children to children fully vaccinated according to the CDC schedule that have found no increased risk in autism among fully vaccinated children. <br /><br />In fact, no such research exists, as testified to by </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Col</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">l</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">een Boyle</a></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on November 29, 2012. In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated." <br /><br />I wrote to Ms. Grantham to ask that she cite her sources or retract her false claim. In her response, she referred to three publications as sources for her information, none of which referenced a vaccinated v.. unvaccinated autism study. In fact, one of her references, a 2013 report by the Institute of Medicine on the current US vaccine program, addressed the lack vaccinated v. unvaccinated research as a whole, and specifically in regard to autism and other developmental disabilities, and notes that parents and the public have been asking for this research for some time. The IOM report recommends against performing such research, because, although they admit it can be accomplished and would be informative, it would also be costly, time consuming and difficult. <br /><br />Ms. Grantham actually replied to me with information that confirms my allegations against her false claim by MaineHealth.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have further contacted several staff members at MaineHealth to ask for a retraction and for clarification of their stance on a public policy. I have received no reply.<br /><br />Further, I have contacted both Maine Calling hosts and producers, as well as MPBN management, to ask for a retraction of these fraudulent claims, but none have replied. <br /><br />I have attached the email chains below.<br /><br />Further, it is imperative that the State of Maine provide oversight in this matter, as the federal 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has removed the rights of families to sue corporations like MaineHealth when members are harmed or killed by a vaccine. The result of this blanket liability protection which has been in place for decades is that physicians, medical care providers, health corporations and even government agencies routinely put out false safety and efficacy information, because there is no mechanism by which the public may directly hold them accountable for fraudulent claims. The public's right to take these entities into a civil court, force them to testify under oath, have judgments rendered by a jury and have remedies be enforced by a judge has been removed. As a result, misinformation can be circulated by both malicious and merely uninformed parties, including doctors providing recommendations to patients in their offices. Bad faith parties and organizations who wish to make outright fraudulent claims are free to do so without fear of legal reprisal from their customers, even if the worst possible outcome happens and the vaccination that was delivered under false information or coercion results in the death of a child.<br /><br />This complaint does not represent the total number of false statements made by Ms. Grantham and MaineHealth but is a short complaint on the easily corrected fraud currently taking place. In light of their refusal to correct even these extremely obvious false statements, I believe that a full accounting of their vaccine safety claims is appropriate.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Further, Ms. Grantham in her professional, role has been quoted in the Portland Press Herald as advocating the elimination of the philosophical vaccine exemption in Maine. This would remove the right of children to a free and appropriate education if their parents did not choose to vaccinate as the state requests. As vaccines are legally classified by the federal government as “Unavoidably Unsafe” (which means they cannot be made safe for their intended use) and can result in serious diseases, disorders, disability, brain damage and death, it a civil rights matter that parents and individuals be free to exercise their right to informed consent, and to reject one or more vaccines for one’s self or one’s child. It is also a civil rights matter that children be allowed equal access to a free and appropriate public education without being impeded by discriminatory policies. In their actions in the last 6 months, I assert that MaineHealth has demonstrated a willingness commit fraud in order to achieve their goal of removing either families’ rights to medical informed consent or the right to a public education for their children to increase vaccine sales.<br /><br />In no other area of medicine are these types of false claims on pharmaceutical products tolerated. I hope that Maine DHHS will take this matter seriously and exercise its authority here to protect Maine consumers against false vaccine safety claims.<br /><br /><br /><br />Attachment:</span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:45:00 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Dodge Patstone &lt;patsta@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Ms. Grantham,<br /><br />This week on MPBN's Maine Calling, in response to a question about vaccine safety, you made the following claim:<br /><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MPBN: “Cassandra what kind of research is out there about the safety of vaccines?”<br /><br />Cassandra Grantham: “So what's really great is that is that many different organizations have put a lot of time and effort into understanding the safety and efficacy behind vaccines and there have been several recent studies that have actually come out looking at associations between vaccinations and different situations that kids may find themselves in, autism being one of them, but many others. And of course we can't do studies that actually force families not to immunize their children so that we can look at what we would call it a randomized controlled trial, it's just not fair. So what we have been able to do is look back over time at different populations of children and we've actually found that kids who are immunized, completely immunized with all of the vaccines according to the the schedule that Dr. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Blaisdell</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">was mentioning the one that recommended by the CDC, that they have no higher risk of getting autism and some of these other developmental challenges that families face than those kids that delayed or did not receive any immunizations at all. So we're finding that there is research that is now delving deeper into this topic and actually proving that the CDC's recommended schedule is safe and it does work and it doesn't increase risks of other situations for kids.”</span></span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To the best of my knowledge, this is a false claim, as no such research exists.&nbsp; This as testified to by <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Coleen Boyle</a>, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing <i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism</i> on November 29, 2012.&nbsp; In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated."&nbsp; <a href="http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s" target="_top">http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s</a>(please see the notes in the video that addresses the claims made by Dr. Koren Boggs that such research exists in further detail.)<br /><br />My understanding of the history of this topic is that the first such request for a study was made by the FDA in 1981 after they removed mercury from over the counter products.&nbsp; FDA declined to ban it from vaccines, asking CDC to first do a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study to see if it increased health risks, however CDC declined to perform the study.<br /><br />The autism and vaccine injury communities have been asking for such a retrospective study to be done for more than a decade now, and health authorities have continued to refuse.&nbsp; Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007</span></span></span>(<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832" target="_top">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832</a>:) to force NIH to do such a study, and reintroduced such legislation in the years since.&nbsp; In response to what he learned from Dr. Boyle during the 2012 hearings, Rep Bill Posey (R-FL) joined with Maloney and introduced H.R. 1757, The Vaccine Safety Study Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1" target="_top">https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1</a>) that would again compel HHS to perform the study that you claim already exists.&nbsp; <br /><br />The bill was not passed, nor to my knowledge has any vaccinated v. unvaccinated research on autism or any other developmental disabilities been published since Dr. Boyle offered her testimony before Congress.<br /><br /><b>As such it is appropriate for you to either produce the citation for this research that the vaccine injury community has been lobbying for, or to retract your false safety claims on MPBN for the product line you are representing.</b><br /><br />Your false claims are only made more egregious by the fact that you have publicly stated in the Portland Press Herald that, "Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal."&nbsp; It is my belief that you are purposely lying to the public in order to remove parental rights and deny Maine children a Free And Appropriate Education in order to promote sales of a product line whose lack of safety is thoroughly documented both by the federal government and the product packaging itself.&nbsp; This type of propaganda sales campaign should not be tolerated by any responsible medical professional, health organization, media outlet or legislator. (<a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/</a>)<br /><br />I await your response,</div><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Mother of a vaccine injured child<br />Co-author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Epidemic-Corporate-Coercive-Government/dp/1620872129" target="_top">Vaccine Epidemic</a><br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">RE: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:31:25 +0000</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">'Ginger Taylor' &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello Ginger ~</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thank you for listening to MPBN’s Maine Calling Show – it is great to know that we have reached such a wide audience with important vaccine messages.&nbsp; I want to clarify that I do not represent any product line or company other than MaineHealth, which is a health system which supports on-time childhood immunizations.&nbsp; I have never been paid by or consulted for a pharmaceutical or medical intervention company or agency. Please see below for MaineHealth’s official statement regarding childhood immunizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>MaineHealth supports the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.&nbsp; We believe that vaccinating children on-time, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), is one of the best ways to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases in our communities and keep children safe and healthy.</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In regards to my statements about vaccine safety, I based those on these studies.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2813%2900144-3/abstract" target="_top">http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(13)00144-3/abstract</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx" target="_top">http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx</a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract" target="_top">http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract</a><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I will not respond to future emails on this subject.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Furthermore, I request that you cease and desist using my image on your blog, Facebook page and other websites you support and represent.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Cassandra</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cassandra Cote Grantham, MA</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Program Director</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Childhood Immunizations and Raising Readers</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Community Health Improvement</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">MaineHealth</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">110 Free Street</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Portland, ME 04101</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Phone: 207-661-7578</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fax: 207-661-7547</span></span></span><br /><a href="mailto:cotec1@mainehealth.org" target="_top"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cotec1@mainehealth.org</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;">&nbsp;</span>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. 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If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and attachments.<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Re: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:37:29 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms.&nbsp; Grantham,<br /><br />None of the citations you offer contain any research on autism risk, or any other developmental disabilities, in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children, which is the claim you made on Maine Calling.&nbsp; Again, no such publish research exists in any form.&nbsp; <br /><br />I therefore demand a retraction of the fraudulent safety claim by yourself, MaineHealth and MPBN.<br /><br />I will not cease using your image, as this is a very newsworthy story and the professional headshot of a medical corporation employee making false claims about the product safety of the pharmaceuticals that it sells is fair use of this image.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">Healt</a><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">hChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Request for Retraction of False Vaccine Safety Claims on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:12:12 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms. Rooks, Mr. Smith and Mr. Vogelzang,<br /><br />On your December 1 episode of Maine Calling, Cassandra Grantham, a representative of MaineHealth, made a fraudulent safety claim on your show.&nbsp; I have copied you on the my email exchange with her, which details the false claim, my correction of the false information as supported by the Congressional testimony of the head of the CDC's Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and my request to Ms. Grantham for her to cite the multiple studies that she claim exist or retract her claim.<br /><br />As you can see, she has failed to produce any research comparing autism rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations and failed to retract her claim.<br /><br />I there for request that Maine Calling retract Ms. Grantham's claim in the same format which it was offered, noting the false claim on the archived version of the interview if MPBN chooses to leave it online.<br /><br />I further strongly encourage Maine Calling to perform an honest evaluation on why vaccine rates are low in Maine and falling nationally.&nbsp; As the educated mother of a vaccine injured child, I can attest to the real reason.&nbsp; It is because the liability protection given to the entire vaccine industry in 1986 has resulted in massive corruption in the vaccine program.&nbsp; Ms. Graham's behavior on your show is case in point.&nbsp; Medical providers and medical industry representatives can make any safety claims that they choose, even completely false claims, because there is no accountability mechanism in place for the public to hold them accountable for false claims.&nbsp; Even when a child is killed by a vaccine after a false claim like this is made to a parent coercing them into administering a vaccine that they would not have otherwise agreed to have delivered to their child, there is no recourse to hold anyone accountable, or even force them to stop making these false claims.&nbsp; So false claims like this one, once spoken by someone claiming to hold authority in vaccinated, simply continue to circulate and be repeated.&nbsp; <br /><br />No doubt Ms. Grantham's false claim will now be circulated by those who have heard your program, even medical professionals who administer vaccines to children.<br /><br />The vaccine show you did with these three women on December 1, was not just about vaccine rejection, it is the REASON for vaccine rejection.&nbsp; It is a real time example of how and why vaccine interests are alienating and loosing the public trust by abusing the public trust.&nbsp; Your guests correctly reported that the exodus from the vaccine program is being lead by educated parents who have serious misgivings of the safety and trustworthyness of the vaccine program, while they themselves were making false claims about the safety of the vaccine program, thereby proving the untrustworthy of the vaccine program.&nbsp; And MPBN is participating in this corruption by allowing false claims to made on your platform with out challenge or correction.<br /><br />I hope that the irony that a show you aired to raise confidence in the vaccination is actually destroying trust in the vaccination is not lost on you.&nbsp; <br /><br />Now this claim of Ms. Grantham is merely one of many problematic statements made by herself, MaineHealth, VaxMaineKids.org and Dr. Blaisdell, and I would be happy to go over the false information that they are sharing with the public under the guise of serving the public if you decide to do a proper investigation of the fraud taking place in the vaccine program both in Maine and at the federal level.<br /><br />But for now, I await a response on your retraction of this particular false statement.&nbsp; </span>I cannot imagine that MPBN would allow any medical professional, industry representative or government official to make such false claims about any other medical product line or medical program.&nbsp; I don't expect Maine Calling to allow this to stand either.<br /><br />Thank you for your consideration,<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><br /><br />No reply from MPBN as of this filing.<br /></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Information Requested on how to file a formal complaint against a Maine Health staffer for fraudulent claims</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:25:15 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">William Caron &lt;Caronw@mainehealth.org&gt;, Kimberly Nemic &lt;nemeck@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Rebecca Arseneault &lt;rarsenault@fchn.org&gt;, Deborah Deatrick, MPH &lt;deatrd@mainehealth.org&gt;, Robert Frank &lt;frankr1@mainehealth.org&gt;, Katie Fullam Harris &lt;harrik2@mainehealth.org&gt;, Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;, Joe Lawlor &lt;jlawlor@pressherald.com&gt;, Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear MaineHealth,<br /><br />This past week, Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth appeared on MPBN's Maine Calling and made a fraudulent vaccine safety claim. She reported to the public that there are several studies comparing vaccinated v. unvaccinated children that find no increase risk of autism and other developmental disabilities in children vaccinated according to the CDC's recommended schedule.&nbsp; <br /><br />In fact, no such research has ever been published.&nbsp; <br /><br />I contacted Ms. Grantham and asked that she cite the research she claims has been undertaken, or retract her statement.&nbsp; She not only failed to cite such studies, she actually cited a 2013 IOM report that confirmed that no such research exists in the medical literature, and that recommended against undertaking such research because of cost, time and difficulty.&nbsp; She has also failed to retract her fraudulent claim and says she will not be responding to me on this matter again.<br /><br />This is just the latest of several false vaccine safety research claims that Ms. Grantham has made on behalf of MaineHealth both in public and on the VaxMaineKids.org web site, a MaineHealth Childhood Immunizations Program project.&nbsp; Several of these false statements have been brought to her attention over the last five months, and she has failed to properly address them.&nbsp; I can therefore only assume that Ms. Grantham is a bad faith player and is purposefully misleading of Mainers on vaccine safety matters<br /><br />This is made all the more egregious as Ms. Grantham has been quoted in the <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">Portland Press Herald</a> as stating that, “Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal,” of the work your organization is undertaking.&nbsp; It is unconscionable that MaineHealth would make fraudulent safety claims in order to advance the agenda of removing parental rights and depriving children of a free and appropriate public education if their families decline to participate in a medical program that presents severe adverse health risks including disability, brain damage and death.<br /><br />I wish to file a formal complaint against Ms. Grantham with MaineHealth.&nbsp; I believe that it is the duty of MaineHealth to review and retract Ms. Grantham's false vaccine safety claims and to exercise disciplinary action against Ms. Grantham, as well as clarify the organization's position on the rights of parents to receive full and accurate vaccine safety and efficacy information, and practice uncoerced informed consent in vaccination.<br /><br />I have forwarded the email exchanges with Ms. Grantham and MPBN below for your review.<br /><br />I am publicly documenting this process <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/12/mainehealthmaine-vax-kids-makes-false.html" target="_top">here</a>.<br /><br />Please direct me to appropriate contact on this matter so I may offer a full account of the problem and offer MaineHealth my support in assuring that it is offering accurate, evidence based information on vaccine safety to the public.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Ginger Taylor<br />Brunswick, Maine</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Letter also forwarded to </span></span><a href="mailto:patientrelations@mmc.org" target="_top"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">patientrelations@mmc.org</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, no response as of this filing.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="62"></col> <col width="603"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Subject: </div></th> <td width="603">RE: 10328 FW: Consumer complaint concerning false vaccine safety claims made by MaineHealth</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Date: </div></th> <td width="603">Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:44:31 +0000</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">From: </div></th> <td width="603">CBER OCOD Consumer Account &lt;cberocod@fda.hhs.gov&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">To: </div></th> <td width="603">'Ginger@GingerTaylor.com' &lt;Ginger@GingerTaylor.com&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Dear Ms. Taylor:</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Thank you for your inquiry to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). CBER, one of seven centers within FDA, is responsible for the regulation of biologically-derived products, including blood intended for transfusion, blood components and derivatives, vaccines and allergenic extracts, and cell, tissue and gene therapy products.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><br /><br /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"></a><span style="color: blue;">We appreciate your concerns and please know that ensuring the safety and effectiveness of vaccines is one of FDA’s top priorities. Unfortunately, we will be unable to assist you with your complaint against MaineHealth. FDA regulates the manufacturing of biological products including vaccines; however, the Agency does not regulate the general practices for home health care, healthcare systems, pharmacies, hospitals, or physicians.&nbsp; </span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">We hope this information has been helpful.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en">If you should have any other questions or concerns regarding this subject, please feel free to contact a representative from FDA's Consumer Affairs Branch within CBER at </span></span><a href="mailto:ocod@fda.hhs.gov">ocod@fda.hhs.gov</a><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en">.</span></span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Sincerely,</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Jill Burkoff</span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Consumer Safety Officer</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Consumer Affairs Branch </span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Division of Communication and Consumer Affairs </span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research </span><br /><span style="color: blue;">US Food and Drug Administration </span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Follow us on Twitter: </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/fdacber"><span style="color: purple;">FDA CBER</span></a><br /><br /><div style="border: none; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>This communication is consistent with 21 CFR 10.85 (k) and constitutes an informal communication that represents my best judgment at this time but does not constitute an advisory opinion, does not necessarily represent the formal position of FDA, and does not bind or otherwise obligate or commit the agency to the views expressed.</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="62"></col> <col width="603"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Subject: </div></th> <td width="603">Re: 10328 FW: Consumer complaint concerning false vaccine safety claims made by MaineHealth</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Date: </div></th> <td width="603">Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:48:55 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">From: </div></th> <td width="603">Ginger Taylor &lt;Ginger@GingerTaylor.com&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">To: </div></th> <td width="603">CBER OCOD Consumer Account &lt;cberocod@fda.hhs.gov&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ms. Burkhoff,<br /><br />Thank you for your quick response.<br /><br />I know that the FDA has gone after several companies for making false claims, on supplements especially, and inappropriate use.&nbsp; What department or departments of the FDA are responsible for those oversight actions?</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies">Facebook</a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/gingertaylor">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="62"></col> <col width="603"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Subject: </div></th> <td width="603">RE: 10340 FW: 10328 FW: Consumer complaint concerning false vaccine safety claims made by MaineHealth</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Date: </div></th> <td width="603">Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:16:09 +0000</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">From: </div></th> <td width="603">CBER OCOD Consumer Account &lt;cberocod@fda.hhs.gov&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">To: </div></th> <td width="603">Ginger@GingerTaylor.com &lt;Ginger@GingerTaylor.com&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Dear Ms. Taylor:</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Thank you for your follow-up inquiry.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">All vaccines are required to include a true statement of information in brief summary relating to side effects, contraindications, and effectiveness in accordance with Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 202.1(e)(1). A copy of the regulation is available at: </span><a href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2014/aprqtr/pdf/21cfr202.1.pdf.%20">http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2014/aprqtr/pdf/21cfr202.1.pdf. </a><span style="color: blue;">Information on FDA’s surveillance of advertising practices is also available on CBER’s website at: </span><a href="http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/ComplianceActivities/Enforcement/UntitledLetters/UCM091551">http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/ComplianceActivities/Enforcement/UntitledLetters/UCM091551</a><span style="color: blue;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">CBER's Advertising and Promotional Labeling Branch (APLB) is responsible for protecting the public health by (1) regulating advertising and promotional labeling materials for CBER products to ensure that the information about the risks and benefits of regulated products are communicated in a truthful, accurate, science-based, non- misleading and balanced manner and is in compliance with pertinent federal laws and regulations; and (2) evaluating proposed proprietary names to avoid potential medication errors related to look-alike and sound-alike proprietary names and mitigating other</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">factors that contribute to medication errors, such as unclear label abbreviations, acronyms, dose designations, and error prone label and packaging design. Additional information on advertising and promotional labeling is available on the CBER website at: </span><a href="http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/Advertising">http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/Advertising </a><span style="color: blue;"><u>LabelingPromotionalMaterials/ucm164120.htm</u></span><span style="color: blue;">and </span><a href="http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/Advertising">http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/Advertising </a><span style="color: blue;"><u>LabelingPromotionalMaterials/ucm117616.htm</u></span><span style="color: blue;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Federal regulations specify what can and cannot be included in the advertising and marketing of prescription drug products.&nbsp; This information can be found in Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Section 202.1 (</span><a href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2014/aprqtr/pdf/21cfr202.1.pdf">http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2014/aprqtr/pdf/21cfr202.1.pdf</a><span style="color: blue;">) and 203 (</span><a href="http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_08/21cfr203_08.html%29">http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_08/21cfr203_08.html</a><span style="color: blue;">). In addition to FDA regulations, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has requirements for advertisements of health products targeting consumers. You may wish to contact the FTC for more information on their regulations (</span><a href="http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/contact.shtm%29">http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/contact.shtm).</a><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">It is important to note that FDA regulations apply to advertising and promotion by or on behalf of the drug product manufacturer. <b>FDA does not have jurisdiction over the statements of other persons.</b> For accurate information, we suggest that consumers refer to FDA’s website and the FDA approved labeling for drug products.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">We hope this information has been helpful.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Sincerely,</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Jill Burkoff</span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Consumer Safety Officer</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Consumer Affairs Branch </span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Division of Communication and Consumer Affairs </span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research </span><br /><span style="color: blue;">US Food and Drug Administration </span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">Follow us on Twitter: </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/fdacber">FDA CBER</a><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><i>This communication is consistent with 21 CFR 10.85 (k) and constitutes an informal communication that represents my best judgment at this time but does not constitute an advisory opinion, does not necessarily represent the formal position of FDA, and does not bind or otherwise obligate or commit the agency to the views expressed.</i></span><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="62"></col> <col width="603"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Subject: </div></th> <td width="603">Re: 10340 FW: 10328 FW: Consumer complaint concerning false vaccine safety claims made by MaineHealth</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">Date: </div></th> <td width="603">Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:29:05 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">From: </div></th> <td width="603">Ginger Taylor &lt;Ginger@GingerTaylor.com&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="62"><div align="RIGHT">To: </div></th> <td width="603">CBER OCOD Consumer Account &lt;cberocod@fda.hhs.gov&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ms. Burkhoff,<br /><br />This is very helpful.&nbsp; I will review what you have send and will be back in touch if I have more questions.<br /><br />Thank you,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/morepuppies">Facebook</a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/gingertaylor">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672&nbsp;</div></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div></blockquote>&nbsp;Bold in letter from Ms. Burkhoff above is mine: &nbsp;<b style="color: blue;">FDA does not have jurisdiction over the statements of other persons.</b><br /><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To the Food and Drug Administration </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I would like to file a complaint against MaineHealth for making fraudulent statements concerning one of their product lines.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MaineHealth, both on the VaxMaineKids.org web site and during an interview on MPBN on December 1, have made false vaccine safety claims. I have contacted VaxMaineKids, MaineHealth and MPBN to ask for a retraction and correction of the false marketing messages that they are issuing to the public, but none of the organizations will properly address the issue.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">VaxMaineKids.org makes the false claims on their web site that:<br /><br />“</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.” <br /><br />And that, “No other medical study anywhere in the world has ever found a link between vaccines and autism. Not one.” (http://www.vaxmainekids.org/mythbuster-series-autism/)<br /><br />During an email exchange last summer with Cassandra Grantham, Program Director of Child Health at MaineHealth, initiated by Ms. Grantham after I had written about her work, I corrected the misinformation, sending VaxMaineKids a list with dozens of studies that link vaccines and autism. (http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link) Ms. Grantham failed to correct the false claims on the MaineHealth web site, and wrote that she was no longer interested in discussing the matter any further with me.<br /><br />Ms. Grantham, representing MaineHealth, made further false claims on December 1</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on MPBN's Maine Calling, when she claimed that there were multiple studies comparing populations of unvaccinated children to children fully vaccinated according to the CDC schedule that have found no increased risk in autism among fully vaccinated children. <br /><br />In fact, no such research exists, as testified to by </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Col</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">l</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">een Boyle</a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on November 29, 2012. In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated." <br /><br />I wrote to Ms. Grantham to ask that she cite her sources or retract her false claim. In her response, she referred to three publications as sources for her information, none of which referenced a vaccinated v.. unvaccinated autism study. In fact, one of her references, a 2013 report by the Institute of Medicine on the current US vaccine program, addressed the lack vaccinated v. unvaccinated research as a whole, and specifically in regard to autism and other developmental disabilities, and notes that parents and the public have been asking for this research for some time. The IOM report recommends against performing such research, because, although they admit it can be accomplished and would be informative, it would also be costly, time consuming and difficult. <br /><br />Ms. Grantham actually replied to me with information that confirms my allegations against her false claim by MaineHealth.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have contacted several staff members at MaineHealth to ask for a retraction and for clarification of their stance on a public policy. I have received no reply.<br /><br />Further, I have contacted both Maine Calling hosts and producers, as well as MPBN management, to ask for a retraction of these fraudulent claims, but none have replied. <br /><br />I have attached the email chains below.<br /><br />It is imperative that the FDA provide oversight in this matter, as the federal 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has removed the rights of families to sue corporations like MaineHealth when members are harmed or killed by a vaccine. The result of this blanket liability protection which has been in place for decades is that physicians, medical care providers, health corporations and even government agencies routinely put out false safety and efficacy information, because there is no mechanism by which the public may directly hold them accountable for fraudulent claims. The public's right to take these entities into a civil court, force them to testify under oath, have judgments rendered by a jury and have remedies be enforced by a judge has been removed. As a result, misinformation can be circulated by both malicious and merely uninformed parties, including doctors providing recommendations to patients in their offices. Bad faith parties and organizations who wish to make outright fraudulent claims are free to do so without fear of legal reprisal from their customers, even if the worst possible outcome happens and the vaccination that was delivered under false information or coercion results in the death of a child.<br /><br />This complaint does not represent the total number of false statements made by Ms. Grantham and MaineHealth but is a short complaint on the easily corrected fraud currently taking place. In light of their refusal to correct even these extremely obvious false statements, I believe that a full accounting of their vaccine safety claims is appropriate.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Further, Ms. Grantham in her professional, role has been quoted in the Portland Press Herald as advocating the elimination of the philosophical vaccine exemption in Maine. This would remove the rights of children to a free and appropriate education if their parents did not choose to vaccinate as the state requests. As vaccines are legally classified by the federal government as “Unavoidably Unsafe” (which means they cannot be made safe for their intended use) and can result in serious diseases, disorders, disability, brain damage and death, it a civil rights matter that parents and individuals be free to exercise their right to informed consent, and to reject one or more vaccines for one’s self or one’s child. It is also a civil rights matter that children be allowed equal access to a free and appropriate public education without being impeded by discriminatory policies. In their actions in the last 6 months, I assert that MaineHealth has demonstrated a willingness commit fraud in order to achieve their goal of removing either families’ rights to medical informed consent or the right to a public education for their children to increase vaccine sales.<br /><br />In no other area of medicine are these types of false claims on pharmaceutical products tolerated. I hope that the FDA will take this matter seriously and exercise its authority here to protect consumers against false vaccine safety claims.<br /><br /><br /><br />Attachment:</span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:45:00 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Dodge Patstone &lt;patsta@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Ms. Grantham,<br /><br />This week on MPBN's Maine Calling, in response to a question about vaccine safety, you made the following claim:<br /><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MPBN: “Cassandra what kind of research is out there about the safety of vaccines?”<br /><br />Cassandra Grantham: “So what's really great is that is that many different organizations have put a lot of time and effort into understanding the safety and efficacy behind vaccines and there have been several recent studies that have actually come out looking at associations between vaccinations and different situations that kids may find themselves in, autism being one of them, but many others. And of course we can't do studies that actually force families not to immunize their children so that we can look at what we would call it a randomized controlled trial, it's just not fair. So what we have been able to do is look back over time at different populations of children and we've actually found that kids who are immunized, completely immunized with all of the vaccines according to the the schedule that Dr. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Blaisdell</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">was mentioning the one that recommended by the CDC, that they have no higher risk of getting autism and some of these other developmental challenges that families face than those kids that delayed or did not receive any immunizations at all. So we're finding that there is research that is now delving deeper into this topic and actually proving that the CDC's recommended schedule is safe and it does work and it doesn't increase risks of other situations for kids.”</span></span></blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To the best of my knowledge, this is a false claim, as no such research exists.&nbsp; This as testified to by <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Coleen Boyle</a>, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing <i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism</i> on November 29, 2012.&nbsp; In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated."&nbsp; <a href="http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s" target="_top">http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s</a>(please see the notes in the video that addresses the claims made by Dr. Koren Boggs that such research exists in further detail.)<br /><br />My understanding of the history of this topic is that the first such request for a study was made by the FDA in 1981 after they removed mercury from over the counter products.&nbsp; FDA declined to ban it from vaccines, asking CDC to first do a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study to see if it increased health risks, however CDC declined to perform the study.<br /><br />The autism and vaccine injury communities have been asking for such a retrospective study to be done for more than a decade now, and health authorities have continued to refuse.&nbsp; Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the <span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007</span></span></span>(<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832" target="_top">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832</a>:) to force NIH to do such a study, and reintroduced such legislation in the years since.&nbsp; In response to what he learned from Dr. Boyle during the 2012 hearings, Rep Bill Posey (R-FL) joined with Maloney and introduced H.R. 1757, The Vaccine Safety Study Act (<a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1" target="_top">https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1</a>) that would again compel HHS to perform the study that you claim already exists.&nbsp; <br /><br />The bill was not passed, nor to my knowledge has any vaccinated v. unvaccinated research on autism or any other developmental disabilities been published since Dr. Boyle offered her testimony before Congress.<br /><br /><b>As such it is appropriate for you to either produce the citation for this research that the vaccine injury community has been lobbying for, or to retract your false safety claims on MPBN for the product line you are representing.</b><br /><br />Your false claims are only made more egregious by the fact that you have publicly stated in the Portland Press Herald that, "Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal."&nbsp; It is my belief that you are purposely lying to the public in order to remove parental rights and deny Maine children a Free And Appropriate Education in order to promote sales of a product line whose lack of safety is thoroughly documented both by the federal government and the product packaging itself.&nbsp; This type of propaganda sales campaign should not be tolerated by any responsible medical professional, health organization, media outlet or legislator. (<a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/</a>)<br /><br />I await your response,</div><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Mother of a vaccine injured child<br />Co-author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Epidemic-Corporate-Coercive-Government/dp/1620872129" target="_top">Vaccine Epidemic</a><br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">RE: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:31:25 +0000</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">'Ginger Taylor' &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hello Ginger ~</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thank you for listening to MPBN’s Maine Calling Show – it is great to know that we have reached such a wide audience with important vaccine messages.&nbsp; I want to clarify that I do not represent any product line or company other than MaineHealth, which is a health system which supports on-time childhood immunizations.&nbsp; I have never been paid by or consulted for a pharmaceutical or medical intervention company or agency. Please see below for MaineHealth’s official statement regarding childhood immunizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>MaineHealth supports the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.&nbsp; We believe that vaccinating children on-time, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), is one of the best ways to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases in our communities and keep children safe and healthy.</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">In regards to my statements about vaccine safety, I based those on these studies.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2813%2900144-3/abstract" target="_top">http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(13)00144-3/abstract</a><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx" target="_top">http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx</a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract" target="_top">http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract</a><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I will not respond to future emails on this subject.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Furthermore, I request that you cease and desist using my image on your blog, Facebook page and other websites you support and represent.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Cassandra</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cassandra Cote Grantham, MA</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Program Director</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Childhood Immunizations and Raising Readers</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Community Health Improvement</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">MaineHealth</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">110 Free Street</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Portland, ME 04101</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Phone: 207-661-7578</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Fax: 207-661-7547</span></span></span><br /><a href="mailto:cotec1@mainehealth.org" target="_top"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">cotec1@mainehealth.org</span></span></span></a><br /><span style="color: #1f497d;">&nbsp;</span>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and attachments.<br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Re: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:37:29 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms.&nbsp; Grantham,<br /><br />None of the citations you offer contain any research on autism risk, or any other developmental disabilities, in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children, which is the claim you made on Maine Calling.&nbsp; Again, no such publish research exists in any form.&nbsp; <br /><br />I therefore demand a retraction of the fraudulent safety claim by yourself, MaineHealth and MPBN.<br /><br />I will not cease using your image, as this is a very newsworthy story and the professional headshot of a medical corporation employee making false claims about the product safety of the pharmaceuticals that it sells is fair use of this image.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">Healt</a><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">hChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Request for Retraction of False Vaccine Safety Claims on MPBN's Maine Calling</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:12:12 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ms. Rooks, Mr. Smith and Mr. Vogelzang,<br /><br />On your December 1 episode of Maine Calling, Cassandra Grantham, a representative of MaineHealth, made a fraudulent safety claim on your show.&nbsp; I have copied you on the my email exchange with her, which details the false claim, my correction of the false information as supported by the Congressional testimony of the head of the CDC's Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and my request to Ms. Grantham for her to cite the multiple studies that she claim exist or retract her claim.<br /><br />As you can see, she has failed to produce any research comparing autism rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations and failed to retract her claim.<br /><br />I there for request that Maine Calling retract Ms. Grantham's claim in the same format which it was offered, noting the false claim on the archived version of the interview if MPBN chooses to leave it online.<br /><br />I further strongly encourage Maine Calling to perform an honest evaluation on why vaccine rates are low in Maine and falling nationally.&nbsp; As the educated mother of a vaccine injured child, I can attest to the real reason.&nbsp; It is because the liability protection given to the entire vaccine industry in 1986 has resulted in massive corruption in the vaccine program.&nbsp; Ms. Graham's behavior on your show is case in point.&nbsp; Medical providers and medical industry representatives can make any safety claims that they choose, even completely false claims, because there is no accountability mechanism in place for the public to hold them accountable for false claims.&nbsp; Even when a child is killed by a vaccine after a false claim like this is made to a parent coercing them into administering a vaccine that they would not have otherwise agreed to have delivered to their child, there is no recourse to hold anyone accountable, or even force them to stop making these false claims.&nbsp; So false claims like this one, once spoken by someone claiming to hold authority in vaccinated, simply continue to circulate and be repeated.&nbsp; <br /><br />No doubt Ms. Grantham's false claim will now be circulated by those who have heard your program, even medical professionals who administer vaccines to children.<br /><br />The vaccine show you did with these three women on December 1, was not just about vaccine rejection, it is the REASON for vaccine rejection.&nbsp; It is a real time example of how and why vaccine interests are alienating and loosing the public trust by abusing the public trust.&nbsp; Your guests correctly reported that the exodus from the vaccine program is being lead by educated parents who have serious misgivings of the safety and trustworthyness of the vaccine program, while they themselves were making false claims about the safety of the vaccine program, thereby proving the untrustworthy of the vaccine program.&nbsp; And MPBN is participating in this corruption by allowing false claims to made on your platform with out challenge or correction.<br /><br />I hope that the irony that a show you aired to raise confidence in the vaccination is actually destroying trust in the vaccination is not lost on you.&nbsp; <br /><br />Now this claim of Ms. Grantham is merely one of many problematic statements made by herself, MaineHealth, VaxMaineKids.org and Dr. Blaisdell, and I would be happy to go over the false information that they are sharing with the public under the guise of serving the public if you decide to do a proper investigation of the fraud taking place in the vaccine program both in Maine and at the federal level.<br /><br />But for now, I await a response on your retraction of this particular false statement.&nbsp; </span>I cannot imagine that MPBN would allow any medical professional, industry representative or government official to make such false claims about any other medical product line or medical program.&nbsp; I don't expect Maine Calling to allow this to stand either.<br /><br />Thank you for your consideration,<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" target="_top">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" target="_top">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672<br /><br /><br />No reply from MPBN as of this filing.<br /></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="width: 665px;"> <colgroup><col width="60"></col> <col width="601"></col> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Subject:</div></th> <td width="601">Information Requested on how to file a formal complaint against a Maine Health staffer for fraudulent claims</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">Date:</div></th> <td width="601">Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:25:15 -0500</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">From:</div></th> <td width="601">Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">To:</div></th> <td width="601">William Caron &lt;Caronw@mainehealth.org&gt;, Kimberly Nemic &lt;nemeck@mainehealth.org&gt;</td> </tr><tr> <th width="60"><div align="RIGHT">CC:</div></th> <td width="601">Rebecca Arseneault &lt;rarsenault@fchn.org&gt;, Deborah Deatrick, MPH &lt;deatrd@mainehealth.org&gt;, Robert Frank &lt;frankr1@mainehealth.org&gt;, Katie Fullam Harris &lt;harrik2@mainehealth.org&gt;, Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;, Joe Lawlor &lt;jlawlor@pressherald.com&gt;, Laura Blaisdell &lt;blaisl@mmc.org&gt;</td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear MaineHealth,<br /><br />This past week, Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth appeared on MPBN's Maine Calling and made a fraudulent vaccine safety claim. She reported to the public that there are several studies comparing vaccinated v. unvaccinated children that find no increase risk of autism and other developmental disabilities in children vaccinated according to the CDC's recommended schedule.&nbsp; <br /><br />In fact, no such research has ever been published.&nbsp; <br /><br />I contacted Ms. Grantham and asked that she cite the research she claims has been undertaken, or retract her statement.&nbsp; She not only failed to cite such studies, she actually cited a 2013 IOM report that confirmed that no such research exists in the medical literature, and that recommended against undertaking such research because of cost, time and difficulty.&nbsp; She has also failed to retract her fraudulent claim and says she will not be responding to me on this matter again.<br /><br />This is just the latest of several false vaccine safety research claims that Ms. Grantham has made on behalf of MaineHealth both in public and on the VaxMaineKids.org web site, a MaineHealth Childhood Immunizations Program project.&nbsp; Several of these false statements have been brought to her attention over the last five months, and she has failed to properly address them.&nbsp; I can therefore only assume that Ms. Grantham is a bad faith player and is purposefully misleading of Mainers on vaccine safety matters<br /><br />This is made all the more egregious as Ms. Grantham has been quoted in the <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" target="_top">Portland Press Herald</a> as stating that, “Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal,” of the work your organization is undertaking.&nbsp; It is unconscionable that MaineHealth would make fraudulent safety claims in order to advance the agenda of removing parental rights and depriving children of a free and appropriate public education if their families decline to participate in a medical program that presents severe adverse health risks including disability, brain damage and death.<br /><br />I wish to file a formal complaint against Ms. Grantham with MaineHealth.&nbsp; I believe that it is the duty of MaineHealth to review and retract Ms. Grantham's false vaccine safety claims and to exercise disciplinary action against Ms. Grantham, as well as clarify the organization's position on the rights of parents to receive full and accurate vaccine safety and efficacy information, and practice uncoerced informed consent in vaccination.<br /><br />I have forwarded the email exchanges with Ms. Grantham and MPBN below for your review.<br /><br />I am publicly documenting this process <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/12/mainehealthmaine-vax-kids-makes-false.html" target="_top">here</a>.<br /><br />Please direct me to appropriate contact on this matter so I may offer a full account of the problem and offer MaineHealth my support in assuring that it is offering accurate, evidence based information on vaccine safety to the public.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />Ginger Taylor<br />Brunswick, Maine</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Letter also forwarded to </span></span><a href="mailto:patientrelations@mmc.org" target="_top"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">patientrelations@mmc.org</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, no response as of this filing.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">12/22/2014</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Per Maura Squire FDA New England </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Phone call: She spoke to her supervisor, Mr. Eliot, an he reports that my complaint is not under FDA jurisdiction. He referred me to: FTC, State Of Maine, Better Business Bureau</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To the Federal Trade Commission: via web site</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">12/22/14</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I would like to file a complaint against MaineHealth for making fraudulent statements concerning one of their product lines.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">MaineHealth, both on their VaxMaineKids.org web site and during an interview on Maine Public Broadcasting (MPBN) on December 1, have made false vaccine safety claims. I have contacted VaxMaineKids, MaineHealth and MPBN to ask for a retraction and correction of the false marketing messages that they are issuing to the public, but none of the organizations will properly address the issue.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">VaxMaineKids.org makes the false claims on their web site that:<br /><br />“</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.” <br /><br />And that, “No other medical study anywhere in the world has ever found a link between vaccines and autism. Not one.” (http://www.vaxmainekids.org/mythbuster-series-autism/)<br /><br />During an email exchange with Cassandra Grantham, Program Director of Child Health at MaineHealth, initiated by Ms. Grantham after I had written about her work, I corrected the misinformation, sending VaxMaineKids a list with dozens of studies that link vaccines and autism. http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link Ms. Grantham failed to correct the false claims on the MaineHealth web site.<br /><br />Ms. Grantham, representing MaineHealth, made further false claims on December 1</span></span><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on MPBN's Maine Calling, when she claimed that there were multiple studies comparing populations of unvaccinated children to children fully vaccinated according to the CDC schedule that have found no increased risk in autism among fully vaccinated children. <br /><br />In fact, no such research exists, as testified to by </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">Dr. Col</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">l</a><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" target="_top">een Boyle</a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on November 29, 2012. In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated." <br /><br />I wrote to Ms. Grantham to ask that she cite her sources or retract her false claim. In her response, she referred to three publications as sources for her information, none of which referenced such a study. In fact, one of her references, a 2013 report by the Institute of Medicine on the current US vaccine program, addressed the lack vaccinated v. unvaccinated research in regard to autism, and notes that parents and the public have been asking for this research for some time. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /><br />It is imperative that the FTC provide oversight in this matter, as the federal 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has removed the rights of families to sue corporations like MaineHealth when members are harmed or killed by a vaccine. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ms. Grantham, in her professional, role has been quoted in the Portland Press Herald as advocating the elimination of the philosophical vaccine exemption in Maine. This would remove the right of children to a free and appropriate education if their parents did not choose to vaccinate as the state requests. I assert that MaineHealth has demonstrated a willingness commit fraud in order to achieve their goal of removing either families’ rights to medical informed consent or the right to a public education for their children to increase vaccine sales.</span></span></div></blockquote><br />So doctors... feel free to claim that vaccines are made of rainbows and unicorn tears if you think you patients will believe you... cause no one cares if you lie.<br /><br />Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-34739725601147213492014-12-06T21:59:00.002-05:002015-03-26T16:18:12.309-04:00Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth/VaxMaineKids.org Makes False Vaccine Safety Claims on MPBN's Maine Calling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HLLs7oCP_8o/VIOVkUR8MaI/AAAAAAAAAy8/LAfc3kFtE_g/s1600/CassandraGrantham.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HLLs7oCP_8o/VIOVkUR8MaI/AAAAAAAAAy8/LAfc3kFtE_g/s1600/CassandraGrantham.jpg" /></a></div>Hey Mainer's... you know that ours is the next state to have a target painted on its vaccine exemptions by Offit and CHOP Co., right? &nbsp;Meet Cassandra Grantham, Maine's very own Offiteer. &nbsp;She is telling some whoppers about vaccine safety research.<br /><br />Remember last year when Kim Spencer went on a local news broadcast and tore into Dr. Koren Boggs for claiming that there were "several" domestic and international studies that compared vaccinated children to unvaccinated children and found vaccination did not increase the risk for autism? &nbsp;And remember that it pissed me off so much that <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2013/07/dr-koren-boggs-does-not-want-to-talk.html">I made a video rant about it</a>&nbsp;and we demanded a retraction?<br /><br />Boggs would not make a public retraction of her false claims, but she did privately admit on facebook to her friends that she was wrong. &nbsp;Sort of. &nbsp;About part of what she said. &nbsp;Pitiful.<br /><br />This week Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth and <a href="http://www.vaxmainekids.org/">Vax Maine Kids</a> takes center stage in making up the same bogus claim on Maine Public Broadcasting.<br /><br />On MBPN's Maine Calling, Host Jennifer Rooks lead a completely uncritical "panel discussion" with three of the women who are on the "lets cripple the philosophical exemption" team in Maine, Dr. Laura Blaisdell, Dr. Amy Belisle and Cassandra Grantham.<br /><br />You will remember two of these ladies as some of the participants in the screening of the <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/07/invisible-threat-ugh.html">Invisible Threat</a> that I unloaded on last summer. &nbsp;Back story here: <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/07/invisible-threat-ugh.html">Invisible Threat, Ugh.</a><br /><br />During the <a href="http://news.mpbn.net/post/vaccinations">episode</a>&nbsp;of Maine Calling, Ms. Rooks asked Cassandra Grantham, "What kind of research is out there about the safety of vaccines?" &nbsp;Grantham's response was the same stunningly fraudulent claim that Boggs made last year. &nbsp;Actually, her claims were worse. &nbsp;That there were new vaxxed/altvaxxed/fully vaxxed studies (my fantasy study) that showed no link between autism or other risks and vaccination.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/N0hWrfSSvYs" width="560"></iframe> <br />Absolutely amazing. &nbsp;She just completely fabricated completely non existent research, and does it with such confidence! &nbsp;Who could doubt her!<br /><br />Actually... she might be on to something. &nbsp;We could save BILLIONS in research spending by just speaking research into existence instead of having to go through the costly and time consuming process of actually doing research.<br /><br />I think I will do that right now! &nbsp;Watch carefully...<br /><br />So what's really great is that many organizations have put a lot of time and effort into understanding the profound impact of beauty on the world, and there have been several recent studies that have come out showing that I am THE most attractive woman in New England. &nbsp;Further they recommended that funding should be directed toward a program to make my life as comfortable as possible to preserve my rare beauty. <br /><br />There! &nbsp;Research done, not a penny spent! &nbsp;I also heartily agree with the recommendations of these fine scientists, whose names I can't remember, because they are scientists and you are not so don't question it. &nbsp;Science has spoken.<br /><br />Following the screening of Invisible Threat last summer, Ms. Grantham actually emailed me and said she wanted to have an exchange on my concerns. &nbsp;I thought, "hey great... a good faith person who actually is following through on the <i>creating a dialogue</i>&nbsp;BS that the vaccine industry reps usually don't mean at all." &nbsp;I gave her just a taste of the problems I had with the vaccine program, and a lengthy note or two on how her VaxMaineKids.org web site was so full of false information that it would have to be taken off line with in minutes of the repeal of the vaccine injury act or they would be sued into oblivion. &nbsp; But as soon as I gave her a rundown of just the start of the problems that needed to be address, and asked how she would like to proceed with the exchange, she suddenly changed her mind and decided she didn't want to talk with me any more. &nbsp;I will put up the email exchange in another blog. <br /><br />But as a preview as to what a propagandist this woman has turned out to be, her website states, "<a href="http://www.vaxmainekids.org/mythbuster-series-autism/">No other medical study anywhere in the world has ever found a link between vaccines and autism. Not one</a>." &nbsp;I sent her the <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link">list of studies</a> that linked vaccines and autism, and she said she only accepted peer review studies. &nbsp;An admission that either she does not know what peer reviewed studies are or that she is a bad faith player who was cornered and gave a BS answer. &nbsp;I have to assume she never even opened the link. &nbsp;Mind you this is a <a href="http://www.mainehealth.org/">MaineHealth</a> web site, one of the largest health corporations in the state.<br /><br />So today I finally got the time to write to Cassandra, call her out on her bold face lie, and ask her to cite these vaxxed v. unvaxxed autism studies or retract her claim. &nbsp;I have copied MPBN, MaineHealth, a Maine Rep. who called into the program, and Dr. Blaisdell, who sat quietly by and allowed Grantham's lie to go unchallenged.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="moz-forward-container"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="moz-email-headers-table"><tbody><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Subject: </th><td>False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th><td>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:45:00 -0500</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th><td>Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th><td>Cassandra Grantham&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">CC: </th><td>Laura Blaisdell, Mark Vogelzang&nbsp;MPBN, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith MPBN,&nbsp;Rep. Andrea Boland, Andrea Dodge Patstone MaineHealth</td></tr></tbody> </table><br /><br />Ms. Grantham,<br /><br />This week on MPBN's Maine Calling, in response to a question about vaccine safety, you made the following claim:<br /><blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><small><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><small>MPBN: “Cassandra what kind of research is out there about the safety of vaccines?”<br /> <br /> Cassandra Grantham: “So what's really great is that is that many different organizations have put a lot of time and effort into understanding the safety and efficacy behind vaccines and there have been several recent studies that have actually come out looking at associations between vaccinations and different situations that kids may find themselves in, autism being one of them, but many others. And of course we can't do studies that actually force families not to immunize their children so that we can look at what we would call it a randomized controlled trial, it's just not fair. So what we have been able to do is look back over time at different populations of children and we've actually found that kids who are immunized, completely immunized with all of the vaccines according to the the schedule that Dr. </small></span></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><small><span style="font-weight: normal;">Blaisdell</span></small></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><small> was mentioning the one that recommended by the CDC, that they have no higher risk of getting autism and some of these other developmental challenges that families face than those kids that delayed or did not receive any immunizations at all. So we're finding that there is research that is now delving deeper into this topic and actually proving that the CDC's recommended schedule is safe and it does work and it doesn't increase risks of other situations for kids.”</small></span></span></span></small></div></blockquote>To the best of my knowledge, this is a false claim, as no such research exists.&nbsp; This as testified to by <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/aboutus/biographies/boyle.html" moz-do-not-send="true">Dr. Coleen Boyle</a>, Director of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities during the House Oversight &amp; Government Reform Committee hearing <i>1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism</i> on November 29, 2012.&nbsp; In response to a question whether or not autism risk had been studied in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children Dr. Boyle stated, "We have not studied vaccinated v. unvaccinated."&nbsp; <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s" moz-do-not-send="true">http://youtu.be/O_GrCAzpA_0?t=9m20s</a> (please see the notes in the video that addresses the claims made by Dr. Koren Boggs that such research exists in further detail.)<br /><br />My understanding of the history of this topic is that the first such request for a study was made by the FDA in 1981 after they removed mercury from over the counter products.&nbsp; FDA declined to ban it from vaccines, asking CDC to first do a vaccinated v. unvaccinated study to see if it increased health risks, however CDC declined to perform the study.<br /><br />The autism and vaccine injury communities have been asking for such a retrospective study to be done for more than a decade now, and health authorities have continued to refuse.&nbsp; Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832" moz-do-not-send="true">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.2832</a>:) to force NIH to do such a study, and reintroduced such legislation in the years since.&nbsp; In response to what he learned from Dr. Boyle during the 2012 hearings, Rep Bill Posey (R-FL) joined with Maloney and introduced H.R. 1757, The Vaccine Safety Study Act (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2013/04/26/extensions-of-remarks-section/article/E576-1</a>) that would again compel HHS to perform the study that you claim already exists.&nbsp; <br /><br />The bill was not passed, nor to my knowledge has any vaccinated v. unvaccinated research on autism or any other developmental disabilities been published since Dr. Boyle offered her testimony before Congress.<br /><br /><b>As such it is appropriate for you to either produce the citation for this research that the vaccine injury community has been lobbying for, or to retract your false safety claims on MPBN for the product line you are representing.</b><br /><br />Your false claims are only made more egregious by the fact that you have publicly stated in the Portland Press Herald that, "Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal."&nbsp; It is my belief that you are purposely lying to the public in order to remove parental rights and deny Maine children a Free And Appropriate Education in order to promote sales of a product line whose lack of safety is thoroughly documented both by the federal government and the product packaging itself.&nbsp; This type of propaganda sales campaign should not be tolerated by any responsible medical professional, health organization, media outlet or legislator. (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/</a>)<br /><br />I await your response,<br /><div class="moz-signature"><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />Mother of a vaccine injured child<br />Co-author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Epidemic-Corporate-Coercive-Government/dp/1620872129" moz-do-not-send="true">Vaccine Epidemic</a><br />Media Director<br /><a href="http://healthchoice.org/" moz-do-not-send="true">HealthChoice.org</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" moz-do-not-send="true">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" moz-do-not-send="true">Twitter</a><br />818-402-9672</div></div></blockquote>Why aren't people vaccinating? &nbsp;I will say it again and again and again. &nbsp;Because the liability protection given to vaccine interests has very visibly corrupted the vaccine program to the bone.<br /><br />Many of their claims are garbage. &nbsp;To the point that their sales teams can pose as "public health interests" go on a supposedly thoughtful, intelligent program, make absurdly fraudulent, easily vetted, vaccine safety claims, which go completely unchallenged by the media, and there is literally no official recourse that the public can take to shut them down or hold them accountable for lies.<br /><br />Case in point, the ONLY means of recourse I have, as a member of the public and the mother of a vaccine injured child, to address this false claim, for which she should be fired and MaineHealth should be sued and put under review by the state, is to write the above letter. &nbsp;One of probably a thousand letters on vaccine fraud that I have written in the ten years since my son's vaccine induced brain damage.<br /><br />And MPBN and Maine Health, and Vax Maine Kids and Dr. Blaisdell and anyone associated with this event at all is free to just ignore the complaint, or tell further lies to cover up this lie that was told to cover up the decades of lies and obfuscation being delivered to the American public.<br /><br />Perhaps if they don't retract this, I will have to get really, really serious with them and write <b><i>another </i></b>letter.<br /><br />Update:<br />Ms. Grantham has responded:<br /><div class="moz-forward-container"><br /><blockquote style="text-indent: -.25in;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="moz-email-headers-table"><tbody><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Subject: </blockquote></th><td><blockquote>RE: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</blockquote></td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE"><blockquote>Date: </blockquote></th><td><blockquote>Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:31:25 +0000</blockquote></td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE"><blockquote>From: </blockquote></th><td><blockquote>Cassandra Grantham&nbsp;</blockquote></td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE"><blockquote>To: </blockquote></th><td><blockquote>'Ginger Taylor' &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</blockquote></td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE"><blockquote>CC: </blockquote></th><td><blockquote>Laura L. Blaisdell , Mark Vogelzang, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith, Rep. Andrea Boland, Andrea Patstone&nbsp;</blockquote></td></tr></tbody> </table><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Hello Ginger ~</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Thank you for listening to MPBN’s Maine Calling Show – it is great to know that we have reached such a wide audience with important vaccine messages.&nbsp; I want to clarify that I do not represent any product line or company other than MaineHealth, which is a health system which supports on-time childhood immunizations.&nbsp; I have never been paid by or consulted for a pharmaceutical or medical intervention company or agency. Please see below for MaineHealth’s official statement regarding childhood immunizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">MaineHealth supports the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.&nbsp; We believe that vaccinating children on-time, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), is one of the best ways to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases in our communities and keep children safe and healthy.</span></i><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">In regards to my statements about vaccine safety, I based those on these studies.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2813%2900144-3/abstract" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(13)00144-3/abstract</a> &nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2013/The-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule-and-Safety.aspx</a></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><br /><br />3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract" moz-do-not-send="true">http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/26/peds.2014-1079.abstract</a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">I will not respond to future emails on this subject.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Furthermore, I request that you cease and desist using my image on your blog, Facebook page and other websites you support and represent.<br /></span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><br /><br />Cassandra</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /><br />Cassandra Cote Grantham, MA</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br />Program Director</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br />Childhood Immunizations and Raising Readers</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br />Community Health Improvement</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br />MaineHealth</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">...</span></span><br /><br />CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and attachments. </blockquote><div class="WordSection1"><div></div></div><br />In short, I work for MaineHealth, here are some unrelated studies so I can pretend like I am giving an answer, while not actually citing a vaxxed/unvaxxed study, stop using my picture, and I am not talking to you any more. <br /><br />Reminder that her web site says, "Vax Maine Kids is a safe place for Maine parents to discuss their concerns and ask tough questions. &nbsp;We promise to always give respectful, <b>evidence-based answers you can trust</b>."<br /><br />So much for that.</div><div class="moz-forward-container"><br /></div><div class="moz-forward-container">But for more irony/entertainment/fuel for your fury, the ONLY study she actually cited was by FRANK DESTEFANO!!!<br /><br />Just bullet pointing the things that should be noted here on her :<br /><br />1. OMG DESTEFANO?!<br /><br />- DeStefano took a tiny piece of vaccines in this junk study, the part we are least worried about causing problems, studied to see if that correlated to autism. &nbsp;DeStefano: "I have extablished that the spices in apple pie do not correlate to obesity." &nbsp;Moms: "Ummm... yeah... we were worried about the sugar, the butter and the crust. &nbsp;Or the pie as a whole. &nbsp;Because you are recommending our kids eat a crap load of pies, and our kids are getting really fat."<br /><br />- Grantham is misusing the junk study exactly the same way everyon else uses it. "The spices in apple pie are not linked to obesity, therefor eating four apple pies in one sitting is not linked to obesity."<br /><br />- Grantham goes further beyond the misuse of this study by claiming it compaires vaccinated and unvaccinated children. &nbsp;Mind you, the word "unvaccinated" <a href="http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(13)00144-3/fulltext">does not even appear in the paper</a>. &nbsp;Nor do the words, "CDC," "Schedule," or the phrase, "fully vaccinated." &nbsp;Therefore, it is difficult to see how Ms. Grantham could be both earnest and competent and put this paper forward to defend her MPBN claims.<br /><br />- DeSoto's critique of the study reports that it did not correctly match cases, and is invalid.&nbsp;http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(13)00662-8/fulltext (and the Journal even links to her critique from the link Grantham provided)<br /><br />- FRANK DESTEFANO HAS BEEN CAUGHT HIDING THREE DIFFERENT AUTISM LINKS IN HIS WORK AT CDC AND IS CURRENTLY THE SUBJECT OF A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION FOR FRAUD! &nbsp;Here is <a href="http://healthchoice.org/index.php/news/122-outline-of-significant-developments-in-the-recent-revelations-on-vaccine-safety-research-corruption" target="_blank">the rundown</a> for those who want to get current on the developments. &nbsp;(Yet Grantham refers to his work while trying to defend the integrity of the vaccine program. &nbsp;This is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG7LjVCj50Y" target="_blank">me</a> right now.)<br /><br />- Frank DeStefano, in Sheryl Attkisson's interview with him about the charges against him claimed that it was not possible for vaccines to cause autism, then four days later changed his statement, admitting that he has never looked to see if vaccines can cause individual cases of autism, and that is something that someone could look into. &nbsp;HE IS THE HEAD OF THE CDC IMMUNIZATION SAFETY OFFICE... HE IS THE ONE WHOSE JOB IT HAS BEEN TO LOOK INTO THIS FOR MORE THAN A DECADE! (insert Mugatu)</div><div class="moz-forward-container"><br /></div><div class="moz-forward-container">2. The 2013 IOM Report:&nbsp;<a href="http://sgh.org.sa/Portals/0/Articles/The%20Childhood%20.pdf" target="_blank">The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence, and Future Studies</a>&nbsp;</div><div class="moz-forward-container"><br /></div><div class="moz-forward-container">- The report actually reports that there is NO VACCINATED V. UNVACCINATED RESEARCH. She actually sent me proof of my claim that I didn't know about. &nbsp;Thank you Ms. Grantham for further indicting yourself. From page 19 of the pdf:</div><div class="moz-forward-container"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq">"The committee’s literature searches and review were intended to identify health outcomes associated with some aspect of the childhood immunization schedule. Allergy and asthma, autoimmunity, autism, other neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., learning disabilities, tics, behavioral disorders, and intellectual disabilities), seizures, and epilepsy were included as search terms. Furthermore, the committee reviewed papers on immunization and premature infants.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">In summary, few studies have comprehensively assessed the association between the entire immunization schedule or variations in the overall schedule and categories of health outcomes, and no study has directly examined health outcomes and stakeholder concerns in precisely the way that the committee was charged to address in its statement of task. <b>No studies have compared the differences in health outcomes that some stakeholders questioned between entirely unimmunized populations of children and fully immunized children.</b> Experts who addressed the committee pointed not to a body of evidence that had been overlooked but rather to the fact that <b>existing research has not been designed to test the entire immunization schedule</b>."&nbsp;</blockquote></blockquote><br />- The report says that it has evaluated doing such studies, that they would be doable, useful, but expensive, time consuming and difficult, so they don't recommend them. &nbsp;Here is their full statement on vaxed v. uvaxed studies.&nbsp;</div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Initiation of New Prospective Observational Studies</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Observational studies are another form of clinical research that can provide useful insights and information that may be used to answer research questions. The committee reviewed opportunities to study groups that choose not to vaccinate using a prospective cohort study design. However, such a study would not conclusively reveal differences in health outcomes between unimmunized and fully immunized children for two main reasons. First, to be informative, cohort studies require sufficiently large numbers of participants in each study group and the sample populations often suggested for use in a comparison of vaccinated and unvaccinated children (such as some religious groups) are too small to adequately power a comparative analysis, particularly in the case of rare adverse health outcomes. Because meaningful comparisons require thousands of participants in each study group and less than 1 percent of the U.S. population refuses all immunizations, the detection of enough unvaccinated children would be prohibitively time-consuming and difficult.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Such a study would also need to account for the many confounding variables that separate some populations from the average U.S. child, including lifestyle factors and genetic variables. To be useful, a comparison would require children matched by age; sex; geographic location; rural, urban, or suburban setting; socioeconomic group; and race/ethnicity.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The committee acknowledges that large-scale, long-term studies of infants through adulthood would be informative for evaluating health outcomes associated with immunization. A new research initiative, the National Children’s Study, is a multicenter, congressionally funded effort that meets these criteria. Although such studies would be the optimal design for evaluating long-term health outcomes associated with the childhood immunization schedule, they would require considerable time and funding, and the committee did not find adequate epidemiological evidence to recommend investment in this type of research at this time."</blockquote></blockquote>&nbsp;Skimming through the report, it seems to be full of comedy gold, like this gem: "The committee identified concerns among some parents about the number, frequency, and timing of immunizations in the overall immunization schedule. These concerns were not expressed by clinicians, public health personnel, or policy makers in the committee’s review."<br /><br />"Well Jim, the customers are not buying because they don't trust the product, but the salesmen are fine with the product, so screw the custmers!" &nbsp;Of course the salemen are happy, they can lie about the product, don't have to know the true safety profiles, can't be sued and THEY GET PAID! <br /><br />Astonishing how these people believe this approach will increase vaccine uptake. &nbsp;Crazy pills.<br /><br />3. Safety of Vaccines Used for Routine Immunization of US Children: A Systematic Review<br /><br />- The ONLY reference to the "unvaccinated" is in a discussion of an Italian study on the flu shot and ER visits and referred to kids who has not received a seasonal or H1N1 flu vaccine.<br /><br />- The ONLY discussion of autism in the paper is in regard to the MMR vaccine, no unvaccinated populations studied.<br /><br />So Grantham has not only proved herself wrong, she has proved herself either incompetent to read medical literature, a bad faith player or both.<br /><br />I responded to her with the following email:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><div class="moz-forward-container"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="moz-email-headers-table"><tbody><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Subject: </th><td>Re: False Vaccine Safety Claims made by MaineHealth on MPBN's Maine Calling</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th><td>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:37:29 -0500</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th><td>Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th><td>Cassandra Grantham&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">CC: </th><td>Laura L. Blaisdell, Mark Vogelzang, Jennifer Rooks, Rep. Andrea Boland, Andrea Patstone, Jonathan Smith</td></tr></tbody> </table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ms.&nbsp; Grantham,<br /> <br /> None of the citations you offer contain any research on autism risk, or any other developmental disabilities, in vaccinated v. unvaccinated children, which is the claim you made on Maine Calling.&nbsp; Again, no such publish research exists in any form.&nbsp; <br /> <br /> I therefore demand a retraction of the fraudulent safety claim by yourself, MaineHealth and MPBN.<br /> <br /> I will not cease using your image, as this is a very newsworthy story and the professional headshot of a medical corporation employee making false claims about the product safety of the pharmaceuticals that it sells is fair use of this image.<br /> <br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ginger Taylor, MS<br /> Media Director<br /> <a href="http://healthchoice.org/" moz-do-not-send="true">HealthChoice.org</a><br /> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" moz-do-not-send="true">Facebook</a><br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" moz-do-not-send="true">Twitter</a><br /> 818-402-9672</span></div></blockquote><br />As Ms. Grantham has informed me that she is not talking to me any more, I assume I will not be hearing from her again. <br /><br />So as is appropriate, I have asked MPBN to retract the statement, and review the issues at play with new eyes. <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><div class="moz-forward-container"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="moz-email-headers-table"><tbody><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Subject: </th><td>Request for Retraction of False Vaccine Safety Claims on MPBN's Maine Calling</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th><td>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:12:12 -0500</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th><td>Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th><td>Mark Vogelzang &lt;mvogelzang@mpbn.net&gt;, Jennifer Rooks and Jonathan Smith &lt;talk@mpbn.net&gt;, Jonathan Smith &lt;jpsmith@mpbn.net&gt;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">CC: </th><td>Cassandra Grantham &lt;COTEC1@mmc.org&gt;, Laura L. Blaisdell &lt;BLAISL@mmc.org&gt;, Rep. Andrea Boland &lt;sixwings@metrocast.net&gt;, Andrea Patstone &lt;PATSTA@mainehealth.org&gt;</td></tr></tbody> </table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ms. Rooks, Mr. Smith and Mr. Vogelzang,<br /> <br /> On your December 1 episode of Maine Calling, Cassandra Grantham, a representative of MaineHealth, made a fraudulent safety claim on your show.&nbsp; I have copied you on the my email exchange with her, which details the false claim, my correction of the false information as supported by the Congressional testimony of the head of the CDC's Director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and my request to Ms. Grantham for her to cite the multiple studies that she claim exist or retract her claim.<br /> <br /> As you can see, she has failed to produce any research comparing autism rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations and failed to retract her claim.<br /> <br /> I there for request that Maine Calling retract Ms. Grantham's claim in the same format which it was offered, noting the false claim on the archived version of the interview if MPBN chooses to leave it online.<br /> <br /> I further strongly encourage Maine Calling to perform an honest evaluation on why vaccine rates are low in Maine and falling nationally.&nbsp; As the educated mother of a vaccine injured child, I can attest to the real reason.&nbsp; It is because the liability protection given to the entire vaccine industry in 1986 has resulted in massive corruption in the vaccine program.&nbsp; Ms. Graham's behavior on your show is case in point.&nbsp; Medical providers and medical industry representatives can make any safety claims that they choose, even completely false claims, because there is no accountability mechanism in place for the public to hold them accountable for false claims.&nbsp; Even when a child is killed by a vaccine after a false claim like this is made to a parent coercing them into administering a vaccine that they would not have otherwise agreed to have delivered to their child, there is no recourse to hold anyone accountable, or even force them to stop making these false claims.&nbsp; So false claims like this one, once spoken by someone claiming to hold authority in vaccinated, simply continue to circulate and be repeated.&nbsp; <br /> <br /> No doubt Ms. Grantham's false claim will now be circulated by those who have heard your program, even medical professionals who administer vaccines to children.<br /> <br /> The vaccine show you did with these three women on December 1, was not just about vaccine rejection, it is the REASON for vaccine rejection.&nbsp; It is a real time example of how and why vaccine interests are alienating and loosing the public trust by abusing the public trust.&nbsp; Your guests correctly reported that the exodus from the vaccine program is being lead by educated parents who have serious misgivings of the safety and trustworthyness of the vaccine program, while they themselves were making false claims about the safety of the vaccine program, thereby proving the untrustworthy of the vaccine program.&nbsp; And MPBN is participating in this corruption by allowing false claims to made on your platform with out challenge or correction.<br /> <br /> I hope that the irony that a show you aired to raise confidence in the vaccination is actually destroying trust in the vaccination is not lost on you.&nbsp; <br /> <br /> Now this claim of Ms. Grantham is merely one of many problematic statements made by herself, MaineHealth, VaxMaineKids.org and Dr. Blaisdell, and I would be happy to go over the false information that they are sharing with the public under the guise of serving the public if you decide to do a proper investigation of the fraud taking place in the vaccine program both in Maine and at the federal level.<br /> <br /> But for now, I await a response on your retraction of this particular false statement.&nbsp; I cannot imagine that MPBN would allow any medical professional, industry representative or government official to make such false claims about any other medical product line or medical program.&nbsp; I don't expect Maine Calling to allow this to stand either.<br /> <br />Thank you for your consideration,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /> Ginger Taylor, MS<br /> Media Director<br /> <a href="http://healthchoice.org/" moz-do-not-send="true">HealthChoice.org</a><br /> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ForHealthChoice" moz-do-not-send="true">Facebook</a><br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/ForHealthChoice" moz-do-not-send="true">Twitter</a><br /> 818-402-9672</span></div></blockquote>Also as appropriate, I have contacted MaineHealth and asked for a review and retraction of their multiple false vaccine safety claims, disciplinary action against Ms. Grantham, and a clarification on their position to remove the rights of parents to decline vaccines that can cause disability, brain damage and death, and still send their children to school.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="moz-email-headers-table"><tbody><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Subject: </th><td>Information Requested on how to file a formal complaint against a Maine Health staffer for fraudulent claims</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th><td>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:25:15 -0500</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th><td>Ginger Taylor &lt;GTaylor@HealthChoice.org&gt;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th><td>William Caron , Kimberly Nemic&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">CC: </th><td>Rebecca Arseneault, Deborah Deatrick, MPH, Robert Frank, Katie Fullam Harris , Cassandra Grantham, Jonathan Smith, Joe Lawlor, Laura Blaisdell&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear MaineHealth,<br /> <br /> This past week, Cassandra Grantham of MaineHealth appeared on MPBN's Maine Calling and made a fraudulent vaccine safety claim. She reported to the public that there are several studies comparing vaccinated v. unvaccinated children that find no increase risk of autism and other developmental disabilities in children vaccinated according to the CDC's recommended schedule.&nbsp; <br /> <br /> In fact, no such research has ever been published.&nbsp; <br /> <br /> I contacted Ms. Grantham and asked that she cite the research she claims has been undertaken, or retract her statement.&nbsp; She not only failed to cite such studies, she actually cited a 2013 IOM report that confirmed that no such research exists in the medical literature, and that recommended against undertaking such research because of cost, time and difficulty.&nbsp; She has also failed to retract her fraudulent claim and says she will not be responding to me on this matter again.<br /> <br /> This is just the latest of several false vaccine safety research claims that Ms. Grantham has made on behalf of MaineHealth both in public and on the VaxMaineKids.org web site, a MaineHealth Childhood Immunizations Program project.&nbsp; Several of these false statements have been brought to her attention over the last five months, and she has failed to properly address them.&nbsp; I can therefore only assume that Ms. Grantham is a bad faith player and is purposefully misleading of Mainers on vaccine safety matters<br /> <br /> This is made all the more egregious as Ms. Grantham has been quoted in the <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/14/state-legislators-to-seek-stronger-vaccine-laws/" moz-do-not-send="true">Portland Press Herald</a> as stating that, “Eliminating the philosophic [vaccine] exemption is the ultimate goal,” of the work your organization is undertaking.&nbsp; It is unconscionable that MaineHealth would make fraudulent safety claims in order to advance the agenda of removing parental rights and depriving children of a free and appropriate public education if their families decline to participate in a medical program that presents severe adverse health risks including disability, brain damage and death.<br /> <br /> I wish to file a formal complaint against Ms. Grantham with MaineHealth.&nbsp; I believe that it is the duty of MaineHealth to review and retract Ms. Grantham's false vaccine safety claims and to exercise disciplinary action against Ms. Grantham, as well as clarify the organization's position on the rights of parents to receive full and accurate vaccine safety and efficacy information, and practice uncoerced informed consent in vaccination.<br /> <br /> I have forwarded the email exchanges with Ms. Grantham and MPBN below for your review.<br /> <br /> I am publicly documenting this process <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2014/12/mainehealthmaine-vax-kids-makes-false.html" moz-do-not-send="true">here</a>.<br /> <br /> Please direct me to appropriate contact on this matter so I may offer a full account of the problem and offer MaineHealth my support in assuring that it is offering accurate, evidence based information on vaccine safety to the public.<br /> <br /> Thank you,<br /> Ginger Taylor<br /> Brunswick, Maine<br /> </span> <br /><div class="moz-forward-container"><br /></div></blockquote>I have decided that this is going to be a test of the system. <br /><br />A rep of a health management corporation makes fraudulent claims about the product line that the corporation is selling to the public, and for which it is taking insurance payments and government funding. &nbsp;Is it possible to hold them accountable and force a review and retraction of their false claims, or does the 1986 Vaccine Act prevent the functioning of all public accountability? &nbsp;As always, my money is on the latter, but we have to give them a chance to do the right thing, don't we?<br /><br />UPDATE:<br /><br />Guess what... they didn't do the right thing. &nbsp;Neither did any of the state and federal authorities I filed complaints with. The results of my four month attempt to hold them accountable here:<br /><br /><a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2015/03/mainehealth-remains-completely.html" target="_blank">MaineHealth Remains Completely Unaccountable of False Vaccine Claims. &nbsp;So I Wrote a Bill.</a><br /><div><br /></div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-61105434480777150832014-11-01T14:42:00.002-04:002014-11-01T14:44:59.099-04:00Pharmacutical Sales Rep Paul Offit Teaches Doctors to Ignore Pharmacutical Package Inserts<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d36OuvoSEfU/VFUp_F5vsQI/AAAAAAAAAyg/9qANz3IOX-E/s1600/pigviruses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d36OuvoSEfU/VFUp_F5vsQI/AAAAAAAAAyg/9qANz3IOX-E/s1600/pigviruses.jpg" height="290" width="320" /></a></div>Paul Offit teaches doctors to ignore pharmacutical package inserts, calling the medical information morally and ethically required be given to patients who could be harmed by said pharmacutical, "the bane of [his] existence."<br /><br />Not something that the physician needs to use to fully understand the Rx they might offer to a patient, "the bane of his existance."<br /><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">He is not a doctor, he is a pharma sales rep.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; display: inline; margin-top: 6px;"><div style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br />Why would you want to see a doctor who is trained by this man? &nbsp;From the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-pediatricians-vaccines-20141031-story.html#page=1">LAT</a>:</div><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">"I know you doctors keep telling me that vaccines don't cause autism. If that's true, then why is it on this package insert?" he asked, playing the role of a parent who had read the blogs and heard the celebrities who connect the two.</span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Shifting in her seat, the designated victim shot Offit an unsure look.</span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Then she began citing studies and said that drug packaging inserts include many "temporally associated symptoms" that weren't necessarily caused by the vaccine.</span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"Why?" Offit pressed. "Why would they put that there — just to scare me?"</span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The doctor kept trying. "They're required by law," she said. "I actually didn't know the answer."</span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Offit broke character to explain: Drug companies must list any condition known to have occurred within six weeks of a vaccination, whether the medication caused the condition or not, and even if it occurs at the same level as with a placebo.</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><b>Package inserts are legal documents, not medical documents, he said, calling them "the bane of [his] existence."</b></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">"If you look at the original package insert for chicken pox vaccine, it says, 'Broken leg has been associated with this drug,'" he added.</span></span></blockquote></div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-53327914231614923002014-10-24T16:51:00.001-04:002014-11-10T19:06:42.576-05:00Please Stop Redefining Autism to Suit Your Own Agenda<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wHo2tWViXnU/VEq7MqskybI/AAAAAAAAAyM/mZz-vkAbIw0/s1600/AutismDefinitionTN-150x150.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wHo2tWViXnU/VEq7MqskybI/AAAAAAAAAyM/mZz-vkAbIw0/s1600/AutismDefinitionTN-150x150.png" /></a></div>So over at <a href="http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/autism-swear-word-recovery/">TMR</a>, The Eagle wrote a piece on the heat that she has been subject to because she used the word “recovery” in relation to her son's autism. <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">“I always grew up believing the F-word was something we didn’t say. But it turns out that in the autism world, the R word is definitely the bad word.<br />Recovery.<br />It’s all raising its ugly head as I am releasing my book, which has a tag line of “A son’s recovery.” Whoa!<br />“How dare you insinuate your son doesn’t have autism anymore? Just because he’s functioning, doesn’t mean the autism isn’t there.”<br />“You can’t ever recover from autism. No matter how well you’re doing, you’re always autistic.”<br />These are just a few snippets from people who don’t know me or my son, or our story, but have literally judged the book by its cover.”</blockquote><br />I think a huge part of the problem is that people have redefined "autism" to mean what they want it to mean, then project that onto what other people are talking about.<br /><br />So let's review what “Autism” actually is.<br /><br />"Autism" is a group of behavioral symptoms which include impaired communication, impaired social interaction, and stereotyped behaviors. &nbsp;Feel free to review the full DSM IV criteria <a href="http://www.autism.com/tools_dsm4">here</a>.<br /><br />You need those BEHAVIORS to get an autism diagnosis. &nbsp;Conversely, if you no longer have those behaviors, then according to the definition, you can no longer be diagnosed with "Autism."<br /><br />But when parents or those with the diagnosis begin to redefine it as an experiential state, or spiritual condition or a state of mind or an "identity," and then foist that definition on others, then the madness begins. They can insist that even when the behaviors are gone the autism is still there... but it is just their opinion and something that does not fit the actual definition of autism.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I am all for those who wish to expand on their experiences as a person who has an autism diagnosis. &nbsp;God knows how helpful it has been to me to hear from communicative adults with an autism diagnosis on what their experience is in giving me ideas on what might be going on inside my son's mind, but those do not define autism. <br /><br />Nor do my son's experiences define “autism.” &nbsp;Nor to his physical maladies that are tied to autism define autism. &nbsp;Because the definition of autism includes none of these things... no experiential descriptions, no medical conditions, no biomarkers nothing other than OBSERVABLE BEHAVIORS. &nbsp;It is narrow, and crappy and inadequate in so, so many ways, but it is what it is. &nbsp;ONLY a description of behaviors. &nbsp; And those who want to go beyond that description need to either lobby that the description be changed to include those experiential, spiritual and medical phenomena, or make up their own term to describe the version of “autism” that they are talking about, so it does not get confused with other types of “autism” or foisted upon people who don't actually have the type of “autism” that they are describing.<br /><br />And while families and individuals might be guilty of redefining the condition and then asserting that others should then be subject to their redefinition, the medical profession is the worst. &nbsp;Because it is the job of science to actually be systematic and exact in the language that they are using to describe conditions, diseases and disorders.<br /><br />If I hear that “autism starts in the womb” one more time, I am going to... I don't know... retreat to my back yard and start blowing bubbles all day long in a catatonic starefest. <br /><br />When you show me that a fetus can have impaired eye contact or trouble speaking or difficulty in forming friendships while still in utero, then you can say that you think “autism” starts in the womb. &nbsp;I'd even grant you a conversation based on the idea that “autism” starts in the womb if you could show me some ultrasounds with the unborn flapping a bit or trying to spin. &nbsp;But as it stands... autism cannot be diagnosed in the womb because the behaviors are not there and AUTISM is strictly a behavioral diagnosis. <br /><br />From <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/03/26/294446735/brain-changes-suggest-autism-starts-in-the-womb">NPR</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">“Brain Changes Suggest Autism Starts In The Womb<br />The symptoms of autism may not be obvious until a child is a toddler, but the disorder itself appears to begin well before birth.<br />Brain tissue taken from children who died and also happened to have autism revealed patches of disorganization in the cortex, a thin sheet of cells that's critical for learning and memory, researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Tissue samples from children without autism didn't have those characteristic patches.<br />Organization of the cortex begins in the second trimester of pregnancy. "So something must have gone wrong at or before that time," says Eric Courchesne, an author of the paper and director of the Autism Center of Excellence at the University of California, San Diego.”</blockquote><br />So many assumptions and leaps there... but this is what my mind immediately jumps to...<br /><br />That would be fascinating and helpful IF THE DIAGNOSTIC DEFINITION OF AUTISM INCLUDED PATCHES OF DISORGANIZATION IN THE CORTEX! &nbsp;BUT IT DOESN'T!<br /><br />It would even be very helpful to families like mine if it did, because then we could check some brains out and see if they have these actual physical anomalies and know whether or not our children had “Autism” defined by those terms and if not, we could know that our children didn't have “Autism” and move on to other areas to look for answers,<br /><br />But it doesn't... because autism is ONLY BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS.<br /><br />And... oh yeah... They only looked at 11 brains and only 10 of them had the cortical changes mentioned so no... you can't define “autism” to include cortical changes. &nbsp;Just like you can't define it to have GI distress, because not all kids with and 'autism' diagnosis have GI problems and just like you can't define it as a vaccine injury because some kids with autism are unvaccinated and just like you can't define it as “Rain Man Syndrome because not all these kids have super powers, or define it as “seeing the world in a different way” and on and on and on.<br /><br />Repeating... Autism is a crappy, narrow, barely useful diagnosis based on 70 year old, outdated information and ONLY on... say it with me.... OBSERVABLE BEHAVIORS!<br /><br />Put 20 kids with an “Autism” diagnosis in a room and you are going to get 20 different sets of associated medical conditions, educational struggles and (insert almost everything else about a child)<br /><br />We need to stop thinking of Autism as a disorder.. it isn't. &nbsp;It is a symptom set. &nbsp;It is like a fever, and caused by many different things. &nbsp;Do I need to even insert the list in here?<br /><br />So if Evan McCarthy lost his Autism diagnosis because he no longer fits the symptoms, and has graduated to “weird,” stop saying he still has autism or that he never had it in the first place. &nbsp;He had the symptoms to qualify for a diagnosis, and then later he didn't. &nbsp;You don't get to redefine “Autism” to suit your agenda.<br /><br />If I might be so bold as to recommend a course of action... I consider the optimal response to, “My son lost his autism diagnosis!” to be:<br /><br />“Yay! &nbsp;I am so excited for you that he is doing so well! &nbsp;Congratulations! &nbsp;Please let us know what worked for him or any advise he has so that we can see if it might be something to help other kids who are diagnosed with autism!”<br /><br />Because I seriously cannot believe in this day and age that anyone is still under the illusion that “Autism” is one thing. &nbsp;It is junk like this in 2014 that makes me want to get on board with those who want to dump the obsolete “Autism” label all together.<br /><br />Update: &nbsp;And two weeks later Jerry Seinfeld announces that he has autism. &nbsp;My considerably cynical thoughts about that on <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2014/11/screw-you-jerry-seinfeld-autistic.html">Age of Autism</a>.<br /><br />Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-80382053524943439932014-09-30T17:03:00.003-04:002014-09-30T17:03:51.567-04:00One of Our Moms Needs Help<div>Some of you may know autism mom, Melanie Baldwin, a founder of The Thinking Moms' Revolution and subject of Jessica's <a href="https://gianelloni.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/lioness-arising-mom-3-melanie-baldwin/">Lioness Arising blog post</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wKJamlbCiew/VCsagGMkLUI/AAAAAAAAAuI/eOwBcrpuOpY/s1600/Melanie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wKJamlbCiew/VCsagGMkLUI/AAAAAAAAAuI/eOwBcrpuOpY/s1600/Melanie.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Melanie is a mom who is battling cancer for the third time. &nbsp;She also has a son with profound autism. &nbsp;The cost of caring for a child with autism is astronomical, but coupled with the cost of battling cancer, it's insurmountable unless they have help.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you'd like to help, Melanie's Give Forward page can be found <a href="https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/x4v5/melanie-hamilton-aka-booty-kicker-thinking-moms-revolution?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=fb_share_send&amp;utm_campaign=dashboard_supporters&amp;og_action=hug&amp;t=3">here</a>. &nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks for reading, and please share!</div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-49915748549940681452014-09-02T13:29:00.000-04:002014-09-02T13:29:39.439-04:00My Op Ed in the Portland Press Herald on the Real Reasons for the Growing Vaccine RefusalSo in July, I was interviewd for an hour for an article on vaccine refusal in the Portland Press Herald. &nbsp;I long story short, <a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/10/more-maine-families-are-skipping-or-delaying-childhood-vaccines/">they did a hatchet job</a> on me. &nbsp;So I wrote an op ed response, and they actually printed it. <br /><br />Please visit and comment. <br /><br /><br />"<a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2014/09/02/maine-voices-breakdown-in-accountability-at-heart-of-decline-in-vaccinations/">Maine Voices: Breakdown in accountability at heart of decline in vaccinations</a><br />Opposition to the current U.S. vaccination program is based on its failures, denial and bad law and policy.<br /><br />BY GINGER TAYLOR<br /><br />BRUNSWICK — I was interviewed for an Aug. 9 front-page article by Joe Lawlor, titled “More Maine families are skipping or delaying childhood vaccines.” What was published was a complete misrepresentation of the interview I gave him.<br /><br />As I told Mr. Lawlor, I’m neither anti-vaccine nor opposed to vaccination, and I vaccinated my children. My opposition is to the current U.S. vaccine program, which has become corrupted by bad law and policy, the failure to disclose known risks to families, the failure to pre-screen children who are showing symptoms that they are at risk for vaccine reactions and the denial of vaccine injury cases – rather than the proper recognition, diagnoses and treatment of vaccine-injured children.<br /><br />In 1986, Congress gave liability protection to all vaccine interests – pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, doctors, nurses, etc. – so no one in this country can sue for vaccine injuries or deaths. As a result of this disregard of Americans’ Seventh Amendment rights, a vaccine injury case hasn’t been brought before a jury in almost 30 years, there is no longer accountability in vaccine safety and the vaccine program has fallen into massive corruption.<br /><br />The effectiveness of vaccines is overstated, safety claims made are overstated and parents no longer get accurate risk information. Instead, vaccine consumers are offered a single sheet of information in the doctor’s office that leaves out almost all of the side effects listed on the vaccine package insert, on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Vaccine Injury Table and the disorders that HHS has concluded can be caused by a given vaccine.<br /><br />Doctors are not trained on federal guidelines for vaccine injury, nor are they required to know the side effects listed on the vaccine package insert. Therefore, few physicians know how to recognize adverse reactions in their patients. As a result, such cases are usually ignored or misdiagnosed and are rarely properly medically assessed, and patients can become victims of medical neglect for a lifetime.<br /><br />Further, the vaccine schedule has tripled since 1986, so a child born today will receive more doses of vaccine by the time he’s 6 months old than I did by the time I went to college. There is almost no long-term safety testing of vaccines, and no safety testing of the overloaded schedule as a whole.<br /><br />This breakdown in the U.S. vaccine program’s accountability to consumers is at the heart of the country’s decline in vaccinations, because when parents take the time to look into physicians’ safety claims, they find they’re being given incorrect and biased information.<br /><br />Case in point: The claim that the vaccine-autism controversy began as the result of one debunked study is utter misinformation. In fact, more than 80 research papers demonstrate the associations between vaccines and autism, and the mechanisms by which vaccines can cause autism.<br /><br />When Mr. Lawlor asked me why I believed my son was vaccine-injured, I directed him to the HHS Vaccine Injury Compensation Table and walked him through the symptoms of pertussis-vaccine-induced “encephalopathy,” the medical term for brain damage, which my son exhibited following his 18-month shots:<br /><br />&nbsp;Decreased or absent response to environment (responds, if at all, only to loud voice or painful stimuli).<br /><br />&nbsp;Decreased or absent eye contact (does not fix gaze upon family members or other individuals).<br /><br />&nbsp;Inconsistent or absent responses to external stimuli (does not recognize familiar people or things).<br /><br />My son’s case is not unusual. Because few doctors have ever read the federal vaccine injury table, children exhibiting symptoms of vaccine-induced brain damage are often diagnosed with “autism” without ever being evaluated for this vaccine reaction.<br /><br />The Press Herald has published a follow-up article and an editorial that make clear its agenda is to not investigate and report the facts on this issue, but to coerce families who have safety concerns into vaccinating according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended schedule – against their better judgment, by removing their legal right to exercise informed consent in medicine.<br /><br />Parents are not declining vaccines because of Jenny McCarthy or because of a 15-year-old British research paper. Parents are justifiably hesitant because the vaccine program has become overly aggressive, dosing is one-size-fits-all, promoters don’t disclose true risks to patients and program managers are not taking responsibility for helping the countless children and adults who have serious adverse vaccine reactions. Parents like me found out the hard way that once your child suffers a vaccine injury, you are on your own.<br /><br />— Special to the Press Herald"Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-73406948247210615872014-07-24T03:24:00.000-04:002014-12-06T18:09:09.494-05:00Invisible Threat: Ugh.I've been gone for a long time doing Health Choice and media work... please forgive... blah blah blah...<br /><div><br /></div><div>So tonight I was down in Portland for some business meetings, and after the first Scott and I walked two blocks to Starbucks for a coffee. &nbsp;I was at the table when he brought my drink and dropped a piece of paper in front of me. &nbsp;"Look what I found on their bulletin board."</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5STlyAeJS8c/U9CDyTqibYI/AAAAAAAAAZY/_JczQ_XA7Vs/s1600/invisibilethreat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5STlyAeJS8c/U9CDyTqibYI/AAAAAAAAAZY/_JczQ_XA7Vs/s1600/invisibilethreat.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a></div><br />It was a flier&nbsp;for the new "hit" vaccine propaganda piece, "Invisible Threat." &nbsp;(Since when to people who are in a film, review the film? Oh wait... HHS owns patents on the vaccines it licenses and recommends... forgot who I was dealing with.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Watch the trailer below and be terrified that your child will die of disease if you don't vaccinate.</div><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/64521691" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/64521691">Invisible Threat Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/chstvlive">CHSTV Videos</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br /><br />It is, of course the same old, same old, but with a twist this time. &nbsp;This was not done by the vaccine lobby, this was done by unbiased high school students!<br /><br />So I was all... "UGH... too bad I can't go, cause we gotta meeting. &nbsp;And it starts in 12 minutes."<br /><br />Then Scott was all, "Just drop me off and go, you don't even need to be at this meeting." &nbsp;So I did that. <br /><br />And there was a good reason to go... because I know a bit of the back story for this film.<br /><br />You see I have a beloved friend and advocacy partner named Becky Estepp. &nbsp;You all know Becky, she has been a regular on Fox News Channel, and lots of local <a href="http://www.sandiego6.com/news/sd6-in-the-morning/April-is-Autism-Awareness-Month-255200191.html">San Diego</a> area news pieces for years. &nbsp;If you want to talk a parent in Southern California who can discuss the problems with the vaccine program, and its relationship to the autism epidemic, Becky is your go to gal.<br /><br />Four years ago, she got a phone call from a high school boy from CHSTV, an&nbsp;awkward sophomore, who said they were making a documentary, and had some questions. &nbsp;Becky had a long conversation with him, but could tell some of the things she was trying to teach him were a bit over his head. &nbsp;Then she never heard from anyone on the film again.<br /><br />Cut to this year when she sees the trailer for "Invisible Threat," and realized THIS was the project she was interviewed for. A totally biased piece, allegedly done by teenagers, that was a bit difficult to believe was done by teenagers. &nbsp;Why did they not interview her for the actual film? &nbsp;Great question... I wondered too! <br /><br />We also wondered, "Kids made this? &nbsp;Really?" &nbsp;From my estimation, yes they did. &nbsp;But it seems pretty obvious that they were lead around by the nose on what what and how to "investigate." &nbsp;In fact we were told at the outset that one of the kids parents worked for Scholastic and "helped" the kids. &nbsp;I am sure that Rotary "helped" too. &nbsp;Also apparently the <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2011/02/bill-gates-attacks-andrew-wakefield-and.html">Gates Foundation</a>, "helped"... so....<br /><br />Fortunately there was a parking space right by the building and I whipped into my chair with one minute to spare before they started. &nbsp;A very attractive lady from Vax Maine Kids (I think) explained that these kid had done two award winning documentaries, and were approached by The Rotary Club to do a pro-vaccine documentary. &nbsp;The kids, of course, turned them down because they wouldn't do something like that, but then agreed to make one on their own terms where they would investigate the issues and then make their movie on what they had learned. (Yes they took the money.)<br /><br />(P.S. Don't take your medical advice from Play Boy Bunnies, take it from teenagers?)<br /><br />She explained that this was the first time the film had been shown in New England (Really? &nbsp;They picked Portland, Maine?) and later explained that one of the reasons that it has not been widely distributed is because the children received death threats after the movie, just like poor Paul Offit (who we have asked for some documentation on these threats, a police report, anything, because, you know... if that shit is really happening, then NOT OK, and we would shame such people into oblivion for it... cause we are kinda sick of being called "baby killers" and being threatened with Child Protective Services as well.)<br /><br />But apparently the death threats to children are not really a problem as they will be releasing the film broadly on August 1. &nbsp;Not super clear. &nbsp;I guess that arrests have been made and the problem is solved?<br /><br />Of course my cynical self imagines the conversation:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"Well we premiered the film last spring, three days before the beginning of "Autism Awareness Month" to take headlines away from the vaccine injury problem, so aren't people gonna be all. "WHAAA?" if we don't release it until August, just in time for the back to school vaccine push?"<br />"Um... just tell them there were death threats so we had to hold off the release." &nbsp;</blockquote>I text all this to Becky and she is not convinced. &nbsp;"Don't you think that if that really happened it would be all over San Diego TV?" &nbsp;Becky makes great points (and is also very physically fit.)<br /><br />Vax Maine Kids did say that they wanted open and respectful dialog on vaccines issues. &nbsp;Well they have never contacted me or any of my loud mouth friends in Maine to have this open discussion, but I'll take her word for it that she means it for that event.<br /><br />So the film begins, and it is all the same tropes. &nbsp;It's all Wakefield's fault. &nbsp;Your body is crawling with a bazillion creatures out to kill you. &nbsp;Mothers of children who have died of "vaccine preventable" illnesses are beautiful and worthy of your compassion. &nbsp;Mothers of children who believe vaccines cause their child's autism are into hippy dippy crap like rubbing oils on their kids and moving their limbs around to heal them. &nbsp;The docs that treat their kids are unattractive quacks. &nbsp;The docs that say vaccines are totally safe are attractive and established and should have angelic music behind them when they speak. &nbsp;Paul Offit is the super smartest and objective guy ever and he thinks moms like me who write critical things on the internet about the vaccine program are "evil." &nbsp;(Also, profiteers... which is hilarious and forces me to stifle a laugh.)&nbsp;MMR induced encephalitis is one in one million. (Wait... I thought vaccine injury in general was one in a million?) &nbsp;And finally, VACCINES ARE SAFE, VACCINES SAVE LIVES, VACCINE REACTIONS ARE RARE, AND VACCINATION IS THE RIGHT CHOICE.<br /><br />***UPDATE:<br />Apologies that this post is a bit of a mess.. wrote it at 3am. &nbsp;I forgot the BEST part of the movie. &nbsp;Parents who don't vaccinate are made analagus to THE TALIBAN!!<br /><br />Yes... because every country on earth vaccinates... "except for one, THE TALIBAN!" &nbsp;Then they point out that Talibanians killed polio vaccine workers. &nbsp;They fail to point out that it was after the CIA used a fake vaccine campaign to harvest the DNA from Afgahan locals to find out if Osama Bin Lahadeen and family were in the area, which caused haters of The Great Satan to stop participating in vax programs and even attack them. &nbsp;Because they assumed they were CIA. <br /><br />Ergo, according to the NYT <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/health/cia-vaccine-ruse-in-pakistan-may-have-harmed-polio-fight.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">the CIA is runing vaccine uptake</a>.<br /><br />Also you are a Talabanian.<br /><br />But this "documentary" is totally unbiased.***<br /><br />So by the end of the film I think my blood pressure was 1000/1000. &nbsp;I don't know why I let my self get so upset about this crap anymore... again... the New England premier and there were 20 people in the room. &nbsp;And then they called the panelists (and moderator and projectionist) to the front of the room... And then there were 13 audience members... including me. (And from the chit chat at the end... clearly they were almost all friends of the panel/people working on vaccine uptake.)<br /><br />So I did a little self-talk to calm myself down, which worked a little. &nbsp;(Damn... I should not have had coffee before I went there.) &nbsp;So I decided I would not talk, but if I did it would just be some mild questions at the very end. &nbsp;Just to see where they really were on this stuff.<br /><br />The panel was a very sweet gray haired older mother in a matronly dress who had lost her teen age son to meningitis, three pediatricians (two female and one male, now come to think of it, I can't remember if the second female was a doc... she didn't say much... might have been a professional advocate), and a former Maine epidemiologist. &nbsp;One of the pediatricians was from my town, and is well known for publishing the most bone headed <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2012/05/14/health/parents-need-to-immunize-their-children-brunswick-doctor-says/">vaccines rah rah rah junk</a> in our state via the Bangor Daily News. <br /><br />Wait... I actually looked the event up. &nbsp;Here is <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/community/invisible-threat-film-screening-at-the-portland-public-library/">the panel</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"The public is invited to this free showing at 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, at the Portland Public Library. A panel discussion will follow the film. The expert panel will include: Larry Losey, M.D., of Brunswick Pediatrics, Laura Blaisdell, M.D., MPH, of Intermed Pediatrics and Researcher at Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Center for Outcomes Research &amp; Evaluation, Jeri Greenwell, parent and Maine advocate for the National Meningitis Association; Emily Rines, MPH, CHES Community Impact Director at United Way of Greater Portland, and Stephen Sears, M.D., MPH, Chief of Staff, VA Maine Healthcare Systems and former Maine State Epidemiologist."</blockquote>The first question was from Vax Maine Kids pretty lady (I really should look up her name, but I don't wanna. &nbsp;Also she had a great skirt on. *edit: Cassandra Grantham of VaxMaineKids.org) It was about social media. &nbsp;(Here we go..) How did the internet, etc impact their efforts on vaccine uptake. &nbsp;Then I had to sit through that, "Oh the horrible internet, blah blah blah conspiracies, yadda yadda, misinformation, The End." discussion. &nbsp;I refrained from shouting that it was the 21st century and every document ever published (Unless it is covered under National Security... and even a lot of those that are covered under National Security) is on the damn internet, and that poo pooing internet information is now exactly equal to saying, "Don't read books. &nbsp;Or anything printed. &nbsp;Or hand written." any time before 1987. <br /><br />None of them said that they had ever learned anything from the critics of the vaccine program.<br /><br />(Crap... I just looked at the <a href="http://www.vaxmainekids.org/">Vax Maine Kids</a> web site. &nbsp;I really should not have done that. &nbsp;Did you know that, "the mercury in the preservative Thimerosal has <i>never </i>been shown to harm children or cause autism?" &nbsp;Wow! &nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link">Not even once</a>!)<br /><br />It should come as no surprise that reasonableness on the issue was inversely proportional to the age of the panelist.<br /><br />Small ray of light came from Dr. Blaisdell, who opened with, and repeated often, that she wants open dialog with parents, and does not want to push parents. &nbsp;But later was discouraged that she repeated the absurdity that, "Aluminum is necessary for human life to function," (No.. <a href="http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/165315-overview">it really isn't</a> , its a <a href="http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/substances/toxsubstance.asp?toxid=34">neurotoxin</a> ); she mocked the use of the word "toxins" (even making air quotes when she said it) telling people in that <i>give me a break</i>, condescending tone, "Please don't listen to people who talk to you about "toxins." (I guess she wants the field of Toxicology to shut down?), and claimed that the Jacobson v. Mass SCOTUS ruling said that states can force people to vaccinate (Clearly the woman has neither read it nor met <a href="http://www.ebcala.org/wp-content/media/compulsory-vaccination-constitution-hepatitis-b-infants-young-children.pdf">Mary Holland</a>.)<br /><br />I had been such a good girl and held my tongue, but apparently I got to the "I feel like I'm taking <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vndf1W5eGE">crazy pills</a>" moment because after Losey said the 25th awful thing (I don't even remember what it was, but I did learn from him that if I didn't like my ruling in the VICP that I could go to civil court and sue the vaccine maker. &nbsp;He had never heard of <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bruesewitz-v-wyeth/">Bruesewitz v. Wyeth</a>) I let out a snort that I am sure sounded like an angry horse, and my hand involuntarily shot up (Insert joke about how there is probably a vaccine for that.)<br /><br />(Seriously... ten years of this crap and they STILL can't get basic information about the real problems right? &nbsp;They are STILL repeating this garbage? JB Handley made the point many years ago, if peds have not bothered to learn by now, it is their own fault. &nbsp;They shouldn't be coddled any more.)<br /><br />The only other audience participation up to that point had been a mom who had of course vaccinated her kids, and wanted to know if Maine's philosophical exemption was making it harder to get kids vaccinated and meet public health goals. &nbsp;Blaisdell made the point that she didn't know, because detailed records are not kept, and not getting the Hep B is not a problem like not getting the Measles vaccine, but opt out rates are higher in states with those exemptions. &nbsp;Losey, to his credit, recognized that getting rid of the exemption was impossible in the current climate, as the bills being considered in Augusta are all to loosen their hold on pushing parents to vaccinate, and, for at least now anyway, not gonna happen. <br /><br />So this is toward the end of the panel discussion, and I just unloaded on them. &nbsp;And not gracefully either. &nbsp;The angry, talking 60 miles an hour Ginge burst out of me. &nbsp;I explained that I was the mother of a vaccine injured child and... blah blah insert my creds here... and watching the movie (that they had all extolled) was hard for me because it contained so much that was false and incomplete and sucky. &nbsp;(I didn't really say sucky.)<br /><br />I don't even remember all I said, but I took them on/correct them on many of the things they said. &nbsp;I do remember saying, in that<i> give me a break</i>, condescending tone, "Do you really think the decline in vaccine uptake is because of one British study that came out 15 years ago." &nbsp;But the big points that I made where that the film addressed NONE of the reasons that we don't participate in the vaccine program any more, that I was going to go ahead and do a point by point take down of the film when it comes out in wide release, and that this does not even address (because they never address it) the real root of the problem, which is the vaccine injury liability they all have. &nbsp;Which assures that they will never have to be put under oath to testify and be cross examined on all the stupid things they say. (No I didn't say that last part either.)<br /><br />So Dr. Blaisdell addressed me very nicely/handled me, and asked me questions, so I was like.. "Fuck it... I am just going to keep talking as long as they will let me," which was a while. &nbsp;But then she brought it around with a "well what would you recommend for us" giving me a final say... again, good, but totally&nbsp;handling me. <br /><br />"How could I choose just one thing!" my brain screamed.<br /><br />So I choose two. &nbsp;Stop attacking "those people on the internet and listen to them/learn from the professionals/stop calling us anti-vaccine" and "realize that because of the vaccine injury and death liability protection you have, that you live in a bubble, with no accountability for what you say and do, that you get to believe whatever you want to believe about vaccines."<br /><br />Oh... also they called me "passionate" a lot, which is a polite/dismissive way of noting that I am a super angry woman. &nbsp;Which I am.<br /><br />"Oppression makes a wise man mad."<br /><br />And then I shut up.<br /><br />And then their tone changed. &nbsp;They were more balanced, they addressed me directly, and in the wrap up question, they suddenly acknowledged that safety is a problem, that they need to do more to avoid vaccine reactions, and parents like me must be engaged.<br /><br />Of course we know what people really want, because they actually DO the things that are important to them.<br /><br />So on the way out I made sure to sign the registry with my contact info, since engaging parents and learning how to avoid vaccine injury is important. &nbsp;So I'm sure they will call, right? &nbsp;I am sure my phone will be ringing off the hook tomorrow with questions like, "What are these eighty plus studies you mentioned about vaccine induce autism and their mechanisms? &nbsp;What are the ways you think vaccine reactions can be avoided? &nbsp;Where is this information from federal officials on vaccine injuries? &nbsp;What was that you said about aluminum and the vaccine schedule not being safety tested?"<br /><br />I think I will clear my schedule tomorrow. &nbsp;And perhaps Friday in case they want to have lunch and look at my research.<br /><br />And then I can spend the day surfing facebook because they won't call me. &nbsp;Or anyone else like me. &nbsp;Because they never do. &nbsp;Because they don't have to. &nbsp;The threat to them for harming children with their mis information and bad practices is not an "invisible threat" it is a non existent threat.<br /><br />They get to do and believe whatever they want. &nbsp;The only consequence is the occasional crazy mom showing up to rant at them.<br /><br />Update!<br /><br />Check below! &nbsp;A doc that does what she says she wants... you know... words and actions! &nbsp;Wow.<br /><br />Second time evah a doc has actually followed up with me on stuff. &nbsp;The first was like five years ago, a med student wrote me and said, "I disagree with everthing you say, but I do have one question." &nbsp;That one question turned into years of conversations long into the beginning of his practice.<br /><br />UPDATE!!!!<br /><br />As my regular readers know, last week I suffered and massive brain hemmorage and died after attending a screening "Invisible Threat" a propeganda film made by HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS on the vaccine debate.<br /><br />Well today, following a touching and heartfelt funeral (seriously guys, I had no idea how insanely you loved me... I was moved) They had to dig me up and readmit me to the emergency room, where I died again, after reading the follow up email I received from the Maine Health Department.<br /><br />They said if I filled out a survey on the film they would send me my CME credits in two weeks. &nbsp;FRIGGING CME CREDITS!!!<br /><br />My next funeral will be held this Saturday at my house. &nbsp;Bring chocolate chip cookies.<br /><br />This was my reply:<br /><br /><blockquote>Ms. Lawson,<br />After attending this event, I was stunned to get this email.<br />Let me get this straight... you are giving CME credits to medical professionals for watching a movie made by high school students? &nbsp;Not medical professionals... minors. &nbsp;We are talking about children.<br />Emphasizing... their highest qualification is that they graduated from Jr. High School.<br />It was FILLED with inaccuracies, partial information and compared people who don't vaccinate to the Taliban, but this is to be used for guidance in how to provide medical care?<br />How exactly does this qualify as advancing a medical education? &nbsp;How are they qualified to teach medical professionals?<br />I await you response,<br />Ginger Taylor</blockquote></div><div><br /><br />UPDATE again...<br /><br />So despite leaving two messages for Dr. Blaisdell in the last three weeks, no response from her.<br /><br />But you know what I just noticed? &nbsp;Paul Offit is listed as the "Science Technical Adviser" on the film. &nbsp;But don't worry... just because the vaccine industry's defacto salesperson, who has made millions off his own vaccine patent is the guy providing them technical science advice, does NOT mean that this is unbiased.<br /><br />Just to emphasize... Offit is in the movie, he is the guy who shaped the movie, and he also reviewed the movie. &nbsp;JOURNALISM!!!<br /><br />Final update:<br /><br />Blaisdell never made good on her invite to talk.<br /><br />It took me a full month to figure out why I was so incredibly angry at this documentary, when we face this kind of schlock so often that we are kinda desensitized to it. &nbsp;It was because they are using kids to sell dangerous drugs to other kids. &nbsp;No better than street corner drug dealers.</div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-42301816609967407682014-04-17T13:34:00.000-04:002014-04-17T13:35:09.318-04:00I Refuse To Be Enlisted Into The "Mommy Wars"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.livingwhole.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Untitled1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.livingwhole.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Untitled1.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">So the attack on vaccine resistant parents in the media this "autism awareness month" has been nothing like any of us has ever seen before.&nbsp; Even Paul Offit has taken a departure from his <i>oh so laid back and wise doctor</i> act to get nasty on us.&nbsp; Pharma needs not only for parents to be ok with the current recommended schedule, but to be open to the open ended vaccine schedule that will include the 200 or so vaccines they have in their development pipeline.&nbsp; They do not want to come to terms with the fact that their market has reached it saturation point and it is all downhill from here for their vaccine profits.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">So because they could not sell us, and because they could not bully us, they have now taken the tack of getting us to bully us.&nbsp; As Meghan at LivingWhole.org so succinctly put it in her piece <a href="http://www.livingwhole.org/the-hate-debate/">The Hate Debate</a>, "...<b>whether or not we vaccinate is now part of the “Mommy Wars.</b>”&nbsp; Setting mother against mother, to bully them into violating their evolutionary and God given instincts on how to protect their child, to do what Pharma says instead.</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">" As if mothers didn’t have enough things to be divided over, you’ve made it so that wherever we go be it daycares, schools, or playgroups we are ridiculed, judged, shunned, and our children as a whole are blamed for the re-emergence of diseases that never left and for spreading diseases they’ve never had. You made this a “Mommy War” issue when you somehow insinuated that a woman isn’t a good mother unless she vaccinates her child. You made this a mommy issue when I had to kneel down and explain to my three-year-old child why she was being discriminated against. You made this a mommy issue when you supported and promoted the following hateful belief system:<br /><br /><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>“[On the topic of vaccines.] We owe it to our children–all of our children–to speak out against this dangerous and misguided parenting choice before more are infected with horrifying diseases that were extinguished decades ago. Choosing not to vaccinate is not yet another anodyne trend in personal parenting. It’s not a quirk; it’s a menace—and a growing one at that.” – <st1:city w:st="on">Bethany</st1:city> via the <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/03/24/the-vaccine-battle-is-not-part-of-the-mommy-wars/">Federalist Papers</a><br /><br /><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>You know what makes a good mother, one who actually educates herself, questions what is put into her child’s body and makes an informed decision (whether she chooses to vaccinate or not). Call me a menace, call me a misguided parent, and blame me for spreading “horrifying diseases” that are actually neither horrifying nor extinguished. If it makes you feel better to fuel fire and spread hate than by all means proceed, as it doesn’t make your side of the movement look very good. I will neither hate nor discriminate against a mother’s decision on the issue of vaccination. No, I will not be part of the hate debate."</blockquote><o:p></o:p><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">So I am here to say that I refuse to participate in the "Mommy Wars."&nbsp; It would be very easy for me to judge parents who are not treating their child's "autism" medically, but I have no right.&nbsp; Just as no one else has the right to judge me for my vaccine decisions.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />So if you see a child being physically abused by their parents, or cases of neglect where they are not being fed, clothed, housed and placed under the care of a health care provider, then please call child protective services and express your concern.&nbsp; But if you just don't agree with a parents medical choices, especially because some crap mass media outlet dripping in pharma ads has tried to turn you into the vaccine patrol, time to take a deep breath, deprogram yourself, and stand down.<br /><br />I support autism families who choose not to do biomed.&nbsp; It is hard for me, it is not my choice, it is not what I want for their children, but I KNOW that it is not my decision to make for that child.&nbsp; It is theirs.&nbsp; And I have NO INTENTION on making their life harder, or even making them feel pressured, to do something that they are not comfortable with.&nbsp; <br /><br />I am horrified that any mother could write the things that I am seeing online to the effect of, "if they don't vaccinate they should have their kids taken away from them." &nbsp;That is just flat out evil. &nbsp;How any mother could wish that on another is horrifying. &nbsp;I started my career in child protective services as a case worker, and even the abusive and neglectful parents... I was still rooting for them to get their crap together and be able to parent their children again. &nbsp;It only happened in one of my cases in two years, but it still makes my cry when I think about that mother who was able to step up and be there for her daughter again.<br /><br />I don't ever want to see a family ripped apart because of their medical choices. &nbsp;And I don't want to make people feel bad for their earnest decisions.<br /><br />With other autism moms, I listen like a friend, if I have something that might help them with what they are struggling with, I usually say something like, "I know of some new medical interventions that might help with his aggression/tummy trouble/attentional issues/etc, so lemme know if you are interested in exploring any of them," and then I leave it at that. &nbsp;And if they never bring anything up, I don't either. &nbsp;If they don't want to talk about their aggressive vaccine choioces, then I don't either. &nbsp;And I support them in their parenting.<br /><br />Are you a mommy?&nbsp; Then I support you and want you to have the best chance at raising your little ones that you know better than anyone.&nbsp; <br /><br />I am not going to participate in the "Mommy Wars."<br /><br /><br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--></div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-83369045480933143402014-01-30T23:20:00.002-05:002014-01-30T23:20:26.898-05:00Annual Birthday Fundraiser<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Az-4i5Ed7M/UuskcpnQ2II/AAAAAAAAATk/VNojL6JFPGc/s1600/1799017_10152153447306418_1701296901_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Az-4i5Ed7M/UuskcpnQ2II/AAAAAAAAATk/VNojL6JFPGc/s1600/1799017_10152153447306418_1701296901_o.jpg" height="244" width="320" /></a></div>As today is my 29th... 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&nbsp;(who are we kidding... they are constantly pushing...)<br /><br />Paul Offit, Pharma Face for Vaccines, of course, has been telegraphing this for years. &nbsp;Pharma goes, "what completely insane thing do we wanna do that we know we will never get away with?" &nbsp;Then they tell Offit to write about that thing, then they get their blogdoggies to push that thing, cause God Offit said the thing, then five years later, they are actually pushing the thing out in the open like it is totally sane and people in positions of power to make that thing happen are all... "well yeah... we should do that thing! &nbsp;People have been talking about it for years!" &nbsp;(As they cash the Pharma check.)<br /><br />We are in the middle of such a thing now. &nbsp;Three years ago <a href="http://2013%20is%20the%20year%20that%20proved%20your%20%E2%80%98paranoid%E2%80%99%20friend%20right/">Offit was quoted</a>&nbsp;in The Lancet suggesting that parents must complete an education program (to of course tell them what a bad choice they are making) before having the right to opt out of vaccinating their children. <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">“Offit suggests one way to raise vaccination rates is to make it harder for people not to get themselves or their children vaccinated. This could mean, for example, attending educational classes that teach the public what the safety profiles of different vaccines are, before they are allowed to opt out of vaccination. “You have to convince people that a choice not to get a vaccine is not a risk-free choice; it’s just a choice to take a different risk.”</blockquote>Jump ahead two years, and what do you know... &nbsp;a pediatrician in the legislature, backed by AAP and every Pharma whore ever... introduces <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-bob-sears/california-vaccination-bill_b_1355370.html">AB2109 in California</a>, requiring that parents must complete an education program (to of course tell them what a bad choice they are making) before having the right to opt out of vaccinating their children. &nbsp;Apparently they had been lobbying for it quietly for at least a year, so by the time it came up for a vote, parents were too late to get legislators on their side.<br /><br />One year later... what's that Paul Offit? &nbsp;You are teaching an <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/vaccines">online education program</a> to tell parents what a bad choice they are making if they opt out of vaccinating? &nbsp;YOU DON'T SAY?! &nbsp;Wow... who saw that coming!<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lcNuMVT1fM0" width="560"></iframe> <br /><br />How long before these all merge and you have to take Offit's propeganda course before you are ALLOWED to make decisions on what goes into your own body or the bodies of your children in your state/school system/medical practice/profession? &nbsp;Stay tuned to find out.<br /><br />So let's stop being niave and pretending these things happen organically, rather than being planned in marketing boardrooms years in advance.<br /><br />On to state vaccine registries.<br /><br />While no one was noticing... all fifty states set up databases of who has and has not been vaccinated with what. &nbsp;And yes you and your kids are probably in there. <br /><br />"Ginger, that's crazy! &nbsp;We have medical privacy... surely that would violate our privacy rights!"<br /><br />"Wake up and smell the 1984," I say.<br /><br />Here is the CDC's master list of all the state databases: <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/contacts-locate-records.html">CDC Immunization Information Systems (IIS)</a><br /><br />Here is my state's information on the program: &nbsp;<a href="http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/immunization/providers/immunization-registry.shtml">ImmPact: &nbsp;Maine Immunization Information System</a><br /><br />Here is what the program is for:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Intent: &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Immunization Information System is intended to be a repository for accurate and up to date immunization records for all persons born, residing, or receiving vaccine in the State of </span><st1:state style="font-size: 11pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maine</st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The primary purpose of the system is to collect data related to vaccine administration, and to promote effective and cost efficient prevention of vaccine preventable diseases.</span></div></blockquote>Note the language, "all persons." &nbsp;That is me and us and everyone here.<br /><br />Here is how the program works:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Establishment Of The Immunization Information System:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All children born in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maine</st1:place></st1:state>and registered in the Electronic Birth Certificate system shall have their demographic data entered into the Immunization Information System (hereinafter referred to as the “IIS”).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; B.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Department may use any birth record, Medicaid record, school record, or immunization record for the purposes of obtaining an individual’s Immunization and Demographic Information and entering that Information into the IIS.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; C.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An Immunization Provider who administers immunizations with vaccines provided by the Department shall record or report all immunizations administered directly into the Immunization Information System, or through other methods as approved by the Department, within five (5) working days of administering the immunization.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; D.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All Patients will be informed during an initial immunization encounter with an Immunization Provider of the inclusion of their immunization record and demographic information into the IIS, and will be provided with the opportunity to opt-out of the IIS. All Patients will automatically have their immunization and demographic information maintained in the IIS, unless a Patient states in writing on a form prescribed by the Department, that he or she wants to opt out of the IIS.</span></div></blockquote>Note that they are supposed to tell you this ahead of time, and that if you don't want in, you have to opt out. (Hey Mainers... do you even know about this database?)<br /><br />Here is the bit on confidentiality:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><h2 align="left" style="margin-left: 0in; page-break-after: auto; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Confidentiality Of The Immunization Information System<o:p></o:p></span></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Identifying information contained in the IIS shall only be disclosed to Authorized Users and the individual that it identifies, except in the case of an authorized exchange (as specified in Section 10-C), or in the event of a public health emergency, as defined by statute.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; B.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Authorized Users must sign a user agreement in a form prescribed by the Department that sets forth the terms for using the IIS. Any such Agreement shall include a confidentiality clause, as well as provisions related to penalties for unauthorized disclosure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; C.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Authorized Users shall not disclose information from the IIS about an individual except to another Authorized User when allowed by these rules, or by state and federal laws addressing patient confidentiality.<o:p></o:p></span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Isn't that Adorable?! &nbsp;(Must have been written <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/nsa-snooping/">before 2012</a>.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">You can read all the rules <a href="http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/immunization/family/documents/maine-iis-rules.doc">here</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in; text-indent: -1.0in;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Who cares if they know exactly what vaccines you and your kids have had? &nbsp;Well this is where a little clause in the <a href="http://docs.house.gov/energycommerce/ppacacon.pdf">Obamacare law</a> can make things relevant to your interests (emphasis mine):</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: 15px;">H.R. 3590 An Act Entitled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">TITLE IV,&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">Subtitle C-Creating Healthier Communities,&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">section 4204, &nbsp;Immunizations,&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">(b):Demonstration Program To Improve Immunization Coverage-</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(1) IN GENERAL- The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall establish a demonstration <b>program to award grants to States to improve the provision of recommended immunizations for children, adolescents, and adults</b> through the use of evidence-based, population-based interventions for high-risk populations.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(2) STATE PLAN- To be eligible for a grant under paragraph (1), a State shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, including a State plan that describes the interventions to be implemented under the grant and how such interventions match with local needs and capabilities, as determined through consultation with local authorities.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(3) USE OF FUNDS- Funds received under a grant under this subsection shall be used to implement interventions that are recommended by the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (as established by the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) or other evidence-based interventions, including--</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(A) <b>providing immunization reminders or recalls for target populations of clients, patients, and consumers</b>;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(B) educating targeted populations and health care providers concerning immunizations in combination with one or more other interventions;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(C) reducing out-of-pocket costs for families for vaccines and their administration;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(D) <b>carrying out immunization-promoting strategies for participants or clients of public programs, including assessments of immunization status, referrals to health care providers, education, provision of on-site immunizations, or incentives for immunization</b>;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(E) <b>providing for<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> home visits</span> that promote immunization through education, assessments of need, referrals, provision of immunizations, or other services</b>;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(F) providing reminders or recalls for immunization providers;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(G) conducting assessments of, and providing feedback to, immunization providers;</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(H) any combination of one or more interventions described in this paragraph; or</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;">‘(I) immunization information systems to allow all States to have electronic databases for immunization records.</span><br /><div><br /></div></blockquote></div>States will be given money to come to your house and give your children their "recommended" vaccines. &nbsp;(One bully school <a href="http://natomas.news10.net/news/community/84327-natomas-school-officials-go-door-door-find-unvaccinated-students">system already tried it</a>, took a local news crew along to film it, and they both were sued for it. Video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38V_31p7jPI">here</a>.)<br /><br />You know what states love? &nbsp;Money. <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Federal Government: "Hey State.... &nbsp;Wanna million dollars to count the number of dots on all the backs of all the salmon in your state?"<br /><br />State: &nbsp;"Sure... why not<br /><br />Federal Government: "What about ten million for a door to door vaccination program?"<br /><br />State: &nbsp;"Hell, yeah!"</blockquote><br />The only thing preventing all states from asking for this cash for door to door vaccination? &nbsp;The fear of doors slammed in faces and angry voters calling to yell at the Governor VaxALot.<br /><br />But I am sure there will be a campaign on the way to get people to accept that too.<br /><br />So in the mean time. &nbsp;Contact your state IIS and get your names off the database.<br /><br />ADDENDUM:<br /><br />Some have asked about how to opt out. &nbsp;Check with your state. &nbsp;Here is how to do it in <a href="http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/infectious-disease/immunization/family/documents/maine-iis-rules.doc">Maine</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Individual’s Right To Opt Out Of The Immunization Information System</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Any individual may choose to be excluded from the IIS, thereby limiting future access to his or her Immunization Records and Demographic Information from the IIS, by submitting a signed and witnessed document to his or her Immunization Provider on a form prescribed by the Department. The Department’s form shall contain, at a minimum, the following information:</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the Patient’s name;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the Patient’s address;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the Patient’s date of birth;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the Patient’s signature;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the Witness’s signature</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (6)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the Patient’s reason for the requested exclusion; and</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (7)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the Department address.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; B.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Patient is responsible for notifying any Immunization Provider at each encounter of the decision to be excluded from the IIS. No Immunization Provider or health plan shall be liable for entering a previously excluded Patient into the Registry if that Patient did not provide that Immunization Provider or health plan with written notice of the exclusion. This rule does not relieve the excluded Patient from the obligation to comply with current immunization requirements set forth in State Law.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; C.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Upon being notified that a Patient wants to be excluded from the IIS, the Immunization Provider is responsible for opting out that Patient from the IIS, and continues to be responsible for the maintenance of appropriate immunization record keeping for the Patient.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; D.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the event that an individual does not have an Immunization Provider, that Patient shall notify the Department directly in writing on the prescribed form of his or her decision to be excluded from the IIS.</span></blockquote>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-34268876378258557352013-08-11T16:47:00.000-04:002013-08-11T16:55:03.699-04:00Vaccine Trials Course at Johns Hopkins University, Institute of Higher Brain Washing. I Mean... Learning.So biomed mom Shannon Strayhorn&nbsp;took a class on from my alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, on vaccine trials. &nbsp;She offers us a little insight into the brain washing that is taking place inside the halls of "higher learning."<br /><div><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq">So I took a class this summer from Johns Hopkins on VAX trials. &nbsp;The class was "Vaccine Trials: Methods and Best Practice". &nbsp;I started taking as many vaccine/health/eviro health classes as possible because I think we need to approach the subject from every imaginable way. Knowing what is being taught and what kind of conversations are bring had is important to being able to provide truth in a public way. Of course every time I said something they would say it has to be backed up with science (I had all the links on there).<br /><br />They would not read them. Then they would respond that they needed to be peer reviewed medical/science papers (they were if they bothered to read). Then without reading they would repeat again that there is no science.<br /><br />I would bang my head and once again share all the links (pages of them). Then I would get "well millions of them couldn't possibly be wrong" (Ha!).<br />In response of course I asked them to read the science and feel free to counter it with their own to prove me wrong (none could or did-not one paper). So then they would give me their resumes...blablabla...I have a PhD, I work in the industry, etc.<br /><br />So of course I shut up...NOT!<br /><br />I kindly said while I am soooooo impressed with their degrees and careers that I find it scary that someone so educated could in fact get to that point considering they couldn't even be bothered to read the science, and couldn't counter one little mom like myself. I asked if it was necessary to post my resume too? I was told we are just parents who are so clueless and don't understand what the difference is between causation and correlation, that the discussion was going to be stopped because it was off topic, and that it wasn't necessary to counter what I shared because the science was in and definite. Definitely in.<br /><br />Bahahaha....oh it is in....but it is clearly not showing what they want!<br /><br />It was completely out of their typical playbook:<br /><br />1. Deny science.<br />2. Pretend parents are dumb.<br />3. Make it all about Wakefield and say things he never said.<br />4. Pretend no other science exists.<br />5. Use your PhD to convince people they must believe you because you are smarter.<br />6. When panicked reference their idol Offit.<br />7. Deny any corruption or financial ties unless you need to defend why you think Wakefield was wrong in which case that is allowed.<br />8. Claim correlation and say how you understand the stupid parents are desperate and how bad you feel for not having answers and in same breathe say they must not understand science.<br />9. Deny any and all proof that pharma has a history of lies and corruption and if someone points that way redirect and say how awesome of a job you do taking safety as the priority.<br />10. Pretend you have no idea who Thorsen is or if pressed claim it doesn't matter.<br />11. Use terms like "studies in other countries" (because people won't know) or say crap like "mercury has been removed" (use MMR because you think that is what we want to hear) or if all else fails talk about antigens.<br />12. Blame parents.<br />13. Accuse parents of following newspapers, and celebrities.<br />14. Repeat there is no science.<br />15. Repeat your degree.<br /><br />Oh and i totally fell for that too....because you know I am just another desperate, uneducated, Mom, who clearly knows nothing. Bring it on!!<br /><br />Just for the record I will say that the discussion is mostly driven by those enrolled and the instructors mainly just redirected and said these subjects where off topic although we did get into it over the idea that the science is "in". The peers if you will, carried the wonderful condescending comments. The class itself was not very controversial and really about just what "should be done and how in trials" and other than the discussions and a few things I personally didn't agree with, it was not a bad class and actually refreshing seeing a different side (by the books without corruption-the way things should be!<br /><br />P.S. Ended with a 98% in the class. &nbsp;No clue how that is possible when I am so dumb.</blockquote></blockquote><br />&nbsp;Seems they just wander around campus repeating, "There is no science. There is no science. There is no science." &nbsp;Sorry to break it to ya... but there is <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html">more than just a little bit of science</a>.<br /><br />No wonder it is getting so easy for us to do this work. &nbsp;They just get more and more absurd.<br /><br />Course info: <br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7gFTebM2dRU" width="560"></iframe><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/vacctrials">Vaccine Trials: Methods and Best Practices</a></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Karen R. Charron, BSN, MPH, CCRC</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Associate Lecturer</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Center for Immunization Research</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Amber Bickford Cox, MPH, CCRC</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Research Associate</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Center for Immunization Research</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">This course will explore the process of evaluating investigational vaccines in clinical trials including informed consent, recruitment, enrollment, safety evaluation, and quality data collection.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">About the Course</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Vaccines are evaluated through a series of clearly defined controlled studies to assess these investigational products for safety, immunogenicity and efficacy before they are approved for licensure. &nbsp;All clinical vaccine trials are bound by international ethical guidelines and, in the case of US trials, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Good Clinical Practice is defined by the International Conferences on Harmonization (ICH) as: “A standard for the design, conduct, performance, monitoring, auditing, recording, analysis, and reporting of clinical trials that provides assurance that the data and reported results are credible and accurate, and that the rights, integrity and confidentiality of trial subjects are protected.”</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">That’s a tall order, so how is it done? &nbsp;Individuals who enroll as subjects in these trials play an essential role in the development and evaluation of new and improved candidate vaccines. &nbsp;They are average citizens who volunteer to roll up their sleeves and, in the process, make a tremendous difference in society. &nbsp;So why do they volunteer and what safeguards do we put in place to protect their rights, safety and well-being while in the trial? &nbsp;What are the responsibilities of the investigators, sponsors and ethics committees who conduct and oversee these trials?&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Along with our colleagues, we will introduce you to how GCP is applied in clinical vaccine trials to ensure proper and ethical scientific conduct. The course will use examples from real vaccine trials to demonstrate the application of the FDA Code of Federal Regulations and ICH GCP Guidelines to explore methods and best practices involved in implementing phase I and II vaccine clinical trials. &nbsp;This short course offering through Coursera is based on our work at the Center for Immunization Research and an in-depth graduate course taught at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">We hope it inspires you to work in this exciting field.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Course Syllabus</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">This course will cover the following topics: A brief review of vaccine history and types; how vaccine trials are conducted, including which data are collected and how those data are managed and evaluated; appropriate processes to ensure human subjects protection and informed consent; methods for recruitment and enrollment of participants; and vaccine safety assessment. Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Describe the types of vaccines in use today</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Describe how vaccines are evaluated in phase I and II clinical trials</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Identify key regulatory requirements, considerations and ethical standards for human subjects protection and informed consent.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Discuss how clinical trials are conducted with an emphasis on quality data and protection of the rights, safety and well-being of volunteers.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Recommended Background</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The pre-requisite for this class is a basic understanding of vaccines. &nbsp;For those without this background, the CDC Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (Pink book) is an available resource providing information on routinely used vaccines and the diseases they prevent! http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/index.html.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">A course on Vaccines is also taught by Paul Offit through Coursera which may be helpful to those enrolling in this course but is not required.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Course Format</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The course will involve weekly lectures followed by a short assessment assignment.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">FAQ</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Who should enroll in this course?</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The audience for this class includes: Those currently working in clinical trials, pre-clinical development, regulatory and ethical review of research and students of public health, medicine, nursing, and biological sciences</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Do I need a textbook for this course?</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">All the material needed for this course can be found on the web or within the lectures. The course will reference the US Code of Federal Regulations 21 CFR 50, 56 and 312 and the ICH Standards of Good Clinical Practice E6. You can also find electronic versions on the web. USFDA and ICH GCP E6. For those with strong interest in this field, we recommend that you purchase a printed GCP reference book at www.clinicalresearchresources.com.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Syllabus</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Course Schedule</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">- Week 1</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Course Overview (Karen Charron and Amber Cox)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 1: Type of Vaccines, How Vaccines are Administered, and the Vaccine Development Process (Neal Halsey)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 2: Essential Elements of a Vaccine Protocol (Karen Charron)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">- Week 2</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 3: Characteristics and Outcomes of Vaccine Trials (Clayton Harro)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 4: Protection of Human Subjects (Amber Cox)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">- Week 3</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 5: Vaccine Trials in Pediatric Populations (Elizabeth Schappell)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 6: Vaccine Management and Preparation (Hye Kim and Vivian Rexroad)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">- Week 4</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 7: Data Management, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control (Karen Charron)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">- Week 5</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 8: Community Involvement and Recruitment (James Williams)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 9: Study Start-Up and Implementation (Karen Charron)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">- Week 6</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 10: Screening Volunteers (Karen Charron)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 11: Enrollment and Implementation Procedures (Karen Charron)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">- Week 7</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Lecture 12: Safety Assessments and Management of Adverse Events (Anna Durbin)</blockquote></blockquote>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-87999835354277331882013-08-09T22:28:00.001-04:002013-08-09T22:34:37.294-04:00CDC No Longer Denying Vaccine/Autism Link?So the Actual Reporter, eagle eye Sharyll Attkisson posted this note on her facebook page... and apparently CDC has had the following on their <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/facts.html">autism page</a> on the CDC web site for 18 months:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; font-weight: normal; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Causes and Risk Factors</h3><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.33em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.33em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">We do not know all of the causes of ASDs. However, we have learned that there are likely many causes for multiple types of ASDs. There may be many different factors that make a child more likely to have an ASD, including environmental, biologic and genetic factors.</div><ul style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Most scientists agree that&nbsp;<a class="highslide" href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/facts.html" style="color: #4a006e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">genes</a>&nbsp;are one of the risk factors that can make a person more likely to develop an ASD.</li><li style="margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Children who have a sibling or parent with an ASD are at a higher risk of also having an ASD.</li><li style="margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 1.5em; padding: 0px;">ASDs tend to occur more often in people who have certain genetic or chromosomal conditions. About 10% of children with ASDs also have been identified as having Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome,&nbsp;<a class="highslide" href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/facts.html" style="color: #4a006e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">tuberous sclerosis</a>, or other genetic and chromosomal disorders.</li><li style="margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 1.5em; padding: 0px;">When taken during pregnancy, the prescription drugs valproic acid and&nbsp;<a class="highslide" href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/facts.html" style="color: #4a006e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">thalidomide</a>&nbsp;have been linked with a higher risk of ASDs.</li><li style="margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 1.5em; padding: 0px;">We know that the once common belief that poor parenting practices cause ASDs is not true.</li><li style="margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><b>There is some evidence that the critical period for developing ASDs occurs before birth. However, concerns about vaccines and infections have led researchers to consider risk factors before and after birth.</b></li><li style="margin: 0.7em 0px 0.7em 1.5em; padding: 0px;">A small percentage of children who are born prematurely or with low birthweight are at greater risk for having ASDs.</li></ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.33em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">ASDs continue to be an important public health concern. Like the many families living with ASDs, CDC wants to find out what causes the disorder. Understanding the risk factors that make a person more likely to develop an ASD will help us learn more about the causes. We are currently working on one of the largest U.S. studies to date, called&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/seed.html" style="color: #4a006e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Study to Explore Early Development (SEED)</a>. SEED is looking at many possible risk factors for ASDs, including genetic, environmental, pregnancy, and behavioral factors.</div></blockquote><br />I laughed when I first read that bullet point I highlighted. &nbsp;Took a team of lawyers to craft that one, now didn't it! <br /><br />Screen shot for posterity. &nbsp;Full size <a href="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/CDCVaccineAdmission080913.jpg">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-STgz3zPUfZE/UgWlxwW6XFI/AAAAAAAAAQk/69q3N5kzdNA/s1600/CDCVaccineAdmission080913.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-STgz3zPUfZE/UgWlxwW6XFI/AAAAAAAAAQk/69q3N5kzdNA/s1600/CDCVaccineAdmission080913.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-64253727407116763332013-07-29T15:18:00.000-04:002013-08-22T22:46:19.375-04:00Dr. Koren Boggs Does Not Want To Talk About Her Idiotic StatementsSo here is the story...<br /><br />Thalia Michelle and Rainna Moran were promoting the <a href="http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/pre-order-the-tmr-book-now/">Thinking Mom's Revolution book</a>, and went on a local New Orleans station to discuss on a show called The 504 with Melanie Hebert. &nbsp;They also had a local ABA therapist, PhD Koren Boggs. &nbsp;Boggs did not like their vaccine stance, it got heated, so Ms. Hebert had Boggs and TMR back on the following night to debate the issue. &nbsp;Kim Spencer was up for TMR this time, and wiped the floor with Boggs, who actually even repeated the "thimerosal in the MMR" cluelessness.<br /><br />So I got mad, wrote this piece, and made this video, which ran last week on the <a href="http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/when-doctors-lie-oh-hell-no/">TMR blog</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Dr. Koran Boggs Is An Idiot</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">by Ginger Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">It's harsh... I know... but I can't take this crap any more.&nbsp; She should know better.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">It has been NINE YEARS for me since my son regressed after DTaP, Hep B and three other shots, while I have to hear the lie that, "there is no association between vaccines and autism," repeated over and over and over and over...&nbsp; That made me nuts back when there were less than ten research papers that showed a link, and now I know of 70!<br /><br />Including one that showed that our own federal government has paid at least 83 autism cases from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, while also pretending that vaccines could not possibly cause autism.&nbsp; <br /><br />I just can't stand the deceit any more.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">So when I saw Kim's debate with Dr. Koran Boggs, I got so angry I had to stop half way through and take a long break just so I didn't have a neurological event.<br /><br />Then I just needed to rant:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/O_GrCAzpA_0" width="560"></iframe><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">You can see why the seasoned Pharma/Public Health talking heads never agree to be in a debate with any of us.&nbsp; They can't get away with the usual BS talking points.&nbsp; ;)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">So the list of research is growing steadily, as more people see it and sent me studies that I have missed, so these links will be updated regularly.&nbsp; You can view it on my <a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html">blog</a>, on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/ginger-taylor/70-research-papers-showing-that-vaccines-can-cause-autism/10151550806568920">Facebook</a>to share there, or in a <a href="http://adventuresinautism.com/files/VaccineAutismStudies.doc">Word</a>doc.&nbsp; Please spread them around any time you hear the lie that "the vaccine/autism causation theory has been debunked because is based on one retracted British study and the opinion of a playboy model and that there is not one study that supports the theory that vaccines cause autism."<br /><br />In fact, share them right now.&nbsp; Then share this video.<br /><br />And here is the information on <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/05/representative-bill-poseys-remarks-moving-from-autism-awareness-to-action.html">Bill Posey bill's</a> to force the vaxxed/unvaxxed study that CDC still won't do after thirty plus years.&nbsp; Call your congressman and ask him to be a co-sponsor.&nbsp; Do it.&nbsp; And then share it too.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Now on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place>study... she is referring to Honda's study, "<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15877763"><span style="color: windowtext;">No effect of MMR withdrawal on the incidence of autism: a total population study</span></a>."&nbsp; If you read the abstract, which I have linked to, it gives the impression that this is a study that compares kids who got the MMR to unvaccinated children, to see if there was a difference in autism rates:&nbsp; <br /><br />"The MMR vaccination rate in the city of Yokohama declined significantly in the birth cohorts of years 1988 through 1992, and not a single vaccination was administered in 1993 or thereafter."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">However, when you read the <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01425.x/full"><span style="color: windowtext;">actual study itself</span></a>, you find that the study was done when <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>(which using the MMR with the Urabe strain Mumps vaccine) realized that it was causing meningitis, and yanked the vaccine.&nbsp; They replaced it with the single dose version of the Measles vaccine, the Mumps vaccine and the Rubella vaccine:&nbsp; <br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">However, due to a high frequency of reports of aseptic meningitis, a suspected side effect of the mumps vaccine (Urabe strain), the program was terminated in April 1993. Subsequently, only monovalent vaccines were administered. Following a reform of the Immunization Law in 1994, measles and rubella vaccinations were each specified for children between the ages of 12 and 90&nbsp;months (the measles vaccine was recommended between 12 and 24&nbsp;months of age and the rubella vaccine between 12 and 36&nbsp;months). The mumps vaccination was voluntary and aimed at children one year of age or older who had not contracted mumps. It was also stipulated that an interval of at least four weeks separate administration of vaccinations."</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <br /><br />So this not a vaxxed v. unvaxxed study, this is a vaxxed v. vaxxed slightly differently study. The way this study is done, it actually asks the question, "is the MMR that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region></st1:place>was using the SOLE cause of autism."&nbsp; And not one person in the debate thought the MMR was the only cause of autism at the time.&nbsp; In 2005 when the study was published, David Kirby had just written <i>Evidence of Harm</i>, parents were trying to find Hg free vaccines and as we know... Thimerosal was never in the MMR.<br /><br />If anything is to be gained at all from this study, it is evidence that splitting up the MMR vaccine into individual shots may not be of any help in avoiding an autism regression.&nbsp; <br /><br />And we can see that from her poor understanding of the Honda study, Dr. Boggs either ONLY read the abstract, and made some assumptions, or someone just told her that this was a vaxxed/unvaxxed study and she didn't bother to check for herself.&nbsp; (Likely the same person who told her that there is no research that supports the vaccine/autism causation theory.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">And here is CDC's <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5508a3.htm">MMWR on the chelation deaths</a>.&nbsp; 1 boy with autism.&nbsp; 1 girl with lead poisoning, both accidently given Na2EDTA instead of the appropriate drug for them, CaEDTA, with which they had both been treated successfully prior to the drug mix up.&nbsp; A third woman died, believed to be using the same version of EDTA, and all three deaths were associated with hypocalcemia (basically the Na2EDTA pulled all the calcium out of their blood.)&nbsp; In talking with docs, it is my understanding that Calcium EDTA is now becoming the standard drug for chelating both adults and children.&nbsp; We chelated our own son with IV CaEDTA with wonderful results and no side effects.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">So, to Dr. Boggs... Kim said you were wrong, and as we see here, you were wrong.&nbsp; No Thimerosal in the MMR, vaxxed/unvaxxed autism research does not exist per CDC's own testimony under oath only 8 months ago, and we have presented here 70 research papers that show not just one, but MANY links between vaccines and autism.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">We await your formal letter retracting your false claims, and I believe it would be most appropriate for you to send the letter to Ms. Hebert so it may be read on her show, "The 504," where you disseminated your errant information in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt;">Because it is all about the science... and the children... right?<o:p></o:p></span></div></blockquote><br />That same day I wrote to Boggs, and copied her director at Children's Hospital of New Orleans and the reporter who aired the stories:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="moz-forward-container"><br />-------- Original Message -------- <br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="moz-email-headers-table"><tbody><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Subject: </th><td>Your 504 debate appearance</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th><td>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:39:47 -0400</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th><td>Ginger Taylor&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th><td>Koren Boggs&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">CC: </th><td>Kim Spencer, Jodi Kamps , Melanie Hebert</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear Dr. Boggs,<br /> <br /> I am the mother of a child who regressed into autism following his 18 month vaccines and now work in vaccine safety advocacy nearly full time.&nbsp; I hold a Masters of Science from Johns Hopkins in mental health, and I am currently providing research for the House Committee on Oversight &amp; Government Reform for their upcoming hearings into the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (the second in this past year their series on vaccine safety, autism, and associated disorders.)<br /> <br /> As some one who has been looking at the vaccine/autism issue for almost a decade, while working to heal my son, it was extremely upsetting to me to hear you repeating falsehoods on your appearance on The 504.&nbsp; <br /> <br /> I was moved to make a video addressing you directly and taking apart your claims.&nbsp; It is now posted, along with a letter and links disproving your statements, on the Thinking Mom's Revolution web site.&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/when-doctors-lie-oh-hell-no/" moz-do-not-send="true">http://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/when-doctors-lie-oh-hell-no/</a>&nbsp; It is harsh and direct (deservedly, I believe), and I am hoping that it will humble you to the point that you examine yourself and your claims, and that you will do the right thing and retract your statements that:<br /> <br /> 1.&nbsp; There was mercury in the MMR.&nbsp; (You have confused two different autism causation theories)<br /> 2.&nbsp; That there is vaccinated v. unvaccinated autism research.&nbsp; (Note the video of the CDC being forced under oath eight months ago to admit there is none.)<br /> 3.&nbsp; There is no research supporting vaccine autism causation, and the entire theory is based on one study published fifteen years ago.&nbsp; (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/ginger-taylor/70-research-papers-showing-that-vaccines-can-cause-autism/10151550806568920" moz-do-not-send="true">70 Studies</a> that show a link.)<br /> <br /> I await your reply to my video and demand for a formal retraction.&nbsp; Kim Spencer was right, and you do a disservice to your credibility, to Ms. Spencer, and to all those affected by autism, by letting your errant pronouncements stand.<br /> </span> <br /><div class="moz-signature">-- <br /><br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br /><a href="http://adventuresinautism.com/" moz-do-not-send="true">Adventures In Autism</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/morepuppies" moz-do-not-send="true">Facebook</a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/gingertaylor" moz-do-not-send="true">Twitter</a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1616082720/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk" moz-do-not-send="true">Vaccine Epidemic</a><br />818-402-9672</div><br /></div></blockquote>Aaaaaaaaaaaaannd.... no response. <br /><div><br /></div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com92tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-61726849379954035232013-07-02T09:50:00.001-04:002013-07-02T09:54:43.682-04:00Welcome Ernest Hancock ListenersPost a list of documents here that I have referred to on the show today. &nbsp;Feel free to email me with any questions. &nbsp;Thanks for listening!<br /><br />Research that supports vaccine/autism causation:<br /><br /><a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html" target="_blank">Web Page</a><br /><br /><a href="http://canaryparty.org/media/VaccineAutismStudies.doc" target="_blank">Word Doc</a><br /><br />CDC recommended childhood vaccine schedule, pre/post 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act that gave complete liability protection to the vaccine industry, public health and medical professionals:<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vVyc8PqLiBg/UdLZNo2TKJI/AAAAAAAAAP0/W2pClVgipuw/s1600/83-11c.gif" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Full video and testimony in Darrell Issa's House Committee Oversight &amp; Government Reform on the Federal Response to the Autism Epidemic, "1 in 88 Children: A Look Into the Federal Response to Rising Rates of Autism," which began to explore the vaccine/autism question:<br /><br /><a href="http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/1-in-88-children-a-look-into-the-federal-response-to-rising-rates-of-autism/">http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/1-in-88-children-a-look-into-the-federal-response-to-rising-rates-of-autism/</a><br /><br /></div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-46167169152182063562013-07-01T19:07:00.002-04:002013-07-01T19:27:15.993-04:00Tracking Chandler<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bHpsfgA-fX8/UdILkpB9OQI/AAAAAAAAAPU/qb8oXFVoDeM/s960/tracker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bHpsfgA-fX8/UdILkpB9OQI/AAAAAAAAAPU/qb8oXFVoDeM/s320/tracker.jpg" width="240" /></a>Two weeks ago I attended a festival, and decided to take my boys there and camp out. &nbsp;For a week.<br /><br />"Camping for a week in the mountains with a child with autism... are you mad?" &nbsp;You must be thinking.<br /><br />Yeah. &nbsp;I guess. &nbsp;But we stopped locking our house from the inside a year ago, and I have let him and his brother walk two blocks to the natural health food store alone (we live in a small town in Maine, so not exactly the biggest danger zone.)<br /><br />So when I decided to take the boys, I put a shout out to local friends for someone to loan me a tracker, but no one had one, and I didn't have time to order one, so I had to buy one local. &nbsp;The best thing I could find was a hunting dog tracker at LL Bean. &nbsp;The <a href="http://sites.garmin.com/astro/" target="_blank">Garmin Astro</a>.<br /><br />When I started looking at it, I was all... "ummm this is kinda great for what we are doing"... It is to track dogs in the woods. <br /><br />It ended up being my only option... and $625 bucks... but I figured I would happily pay that much to get Chandler back if he got lost in the woods... so we snapped it up, threw nine thousand lbs of our friends camping equipment into the car and drove north to try to figure out how the heck to do this "camping" that so many speak of.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yX3y6FcoR0c/UdIN8VVTzAI/AAAAAAAAAPk/JQD_o8x1zEA/s960/camping.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yX3y6FcoR0c/UdIN8VVTzAI/AAAAAAAAAPk/JQD_o8x1zEA/s320/camping.jpg" title="Chandler at the camp grounds playing with someone bubble machine." width="240" /></a></div>I was sure Chandler would not wander off. &nbsp;But he did. &nbsp;I was in a lecture, listening to Milton Freidman's son discuss his ideas on how a completely <a href="http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf" target="_blank">anarchist society would function</a>, and moved chairs to see better. &nbsp;I told Web, but not Chandler, and he went looking for me, out side of the pavilion. <br /><br />So... actually it was my fault.<br /><br />By the time Web noticed (he was playing Minecraft) and told me, I whipped out the tracker and located him... but the super awesome security staff, who I had already briefed Chandler on, had already found him and was bringing him back. &nbsp;He was walking around asking, "Have you seen my Mom?"<br /><br />Thrilled the tracker worked, and realizing that he actually was doing what any normal kid would do when they could not find their mom, I though... "perhaps I have under estimated the boy." &nbsp;So I decided to lengthen the leash a bit, as it were.<br /><br />We had been there for three days, and knew the place well. &nbsp;So we spent the rest of the day testing out the electronic leash. &nbsp;I gave the boys tasks to do, (go to the Juice Caboose and buy organic smoothies, then to the bathroom, then back to the tent and you guys can play video games.) &nbsp;Then I would wait for them to get out of sight and track them with the Astro. <br /><br />And they were great! <br /><br />Families had been playing "Humans v. Zombies" all week, where they divide up, chase each other all over the camp grounds, and the last human alive wins. &nbsp;So I decided to let them play while I went to another lecture. &nbsp;I watched them run around the camp (could even tell when they got into skirmishes with zombies, because their path would go all zig zag. &nbsp;After an hour, Chandler got hot and quit... a HUGE win for autism world! &nbsp;He got to play like a normal kid until he felt like quitting!<br /><br />So when we got home, Dad took the boys out with the tracker and mapped the place we go in town. &nbsp;Natural food store, Library, gelato shop, all within four blocks... so the boys can start going on more adventures together.<br /><br />Anyway... no it is not a kid tracker, it is a dog tracker... and it funny when he stops somewhere and it tells me that, "Chandler has treed his quarry." &nbsp;But I kinda love the thing. <br /><br />And no contract is needed. &nbsp;Which is also nice.<br /><br />So today he walks up to me and says, "Mom... put my tracker on... I am going to the store by myself to get stuff to make pizza!"<br /><br />Dad went with. &nbsp;;)Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-84634903024181234472013-06-30T02:22:00.000-04:002013-07-06T15:23:43.067-04:00Tim Bolen Wants to Make Us (or maybe just me) Feel Like We Are Being "Boiled in Oil."<div class="tr_bq">(Also, I am responsible for the autism epidemic... so sorry guys... my bad.)<br /><br />So I don't blog much any more. &nbsp;Doing more serious and boring work... but taking the weekend off to share with my readers my exchange with a man named Tim Bolen.</div><br />If you have never heard of him, skip this post. &nbsp;It is just stupid drama and tangential to anything important for our kids. &nbsp;I am just putting this out there so people in our community see what a creep he is and don't fall for his BS.<br /><br />Long story short, this is a guy who is basically a PR type guy in the Health Freedom movement (The entirety of which, excluding Bolen, have been wonderful to us and supportive of us), who, from what I can put together, sees the vaccine injury community as a cash cow and is trying to "take over" our movement. &nbsp;(His own words.) &nbsp;Which is hilarious, as no one in our movement actually wants to be in our movement, or do any of this fighting, we just want the poisoning, abuse, neglect and deaths of our kids to stop, and the epidemic to end, so we actually CAN'T stop fighting. &nbsp;(God knows we have all tried, and it only lasts a few months at best before we get dragged back into the battle.)<br /><br />So long story short, he starts writing hit pieces like six eight months ago on "Autism Leadership," mostly SafeMinds and that warped into Canary Party, and the stuff he writes is just bizarre, barely based in fact, and never actually go anywhere. &nbsp;Lots of innuendo, no real point. &nbsp;He wrote a really stupid one Friday, and I finally lost it and posted <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/06/tim-bolen-shoots-himself-in-the-foot-from-his-hip.html" target="_blank">this</a> on FB, then Age of Autism ran it.<br /><br />He is also using one of my photos on his page with out permission, so I sent him an email to ask him to remove it. &nbsp;Then another. &nbsp;The following email exchanged ensued. <br /><br />Posting so you can see what a kind hearted, reasonable guy he is... and how hard he is working to support families with vaccine injury and autism in our fight to stop the epidemic and heal our kids.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">From: Ginger Taylor [mailto:GingerTaylor@CanaryParty.org]<br />Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 9:42 AM<br />To: Tim Bolen<br />Cc: Mark Blaxill<br />Subject: Please remove my picture<br /><br />Mr Bolen,<br />This is my second notice to you. &nbsp;You are using my photograph of Larsen and Issa with out my permission. &nbsp;Remove it from your web site.<br />You are a bad faith player, and I do not want any of my work associated with you in any way.<br />--<br />Ginger Taylor, MS<br />The Canary Party<br />Facebook<br />Twitter<br />818-402-9672</blockquote><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Subject: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>RE: Please remove my picture<br />Date: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:04:49 -0700<br />From: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tim Bolen &lt;jurimed2@yahoo.com&gt;<br />To: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'Ginger Taylor' &lt;GingerTaylor@CanaryParty.org&gt;<br /><br />Ginger:<br />Consult an attorney. &nbsp;Since I am writing about you and yours my use is called “Fair Use.” &nbsp;And , I am certainly not intimidated by a “Ken and Barbie” hanger-on.<br />You can absolutely count on the fact that your work will be associated with mine – very clearly, and widely distributed.<br />I am looking for MORE photos to use explaining the autism situation as it really is. &nbsp;You people convict yourselves.<br />Really Ginger, the Canary Party gave Darrrell Issa $40,000 so each of you could have your picture taken with him trying to convince the Autism Community that YOU had some value in the discussion? &nbsp;I am sure you are aware, as I am, that Darrell Issa’s committee did ABSOLUTLEY NO FOLLOW UP after last November’s meeting?<br />I am having a problem finding the Canary Party’s IRS 990s. &nbsp;Where can I find them?<br />YOU are responsible for your actions.<br />Oh, and it would be a very good idea if you consulted an attorney about that little piece on me you put on FaceBook. &nbsp;I may let the first one go, because I think you are a simple, emotional, &nbsp;misguided, dupe, trying to fins a way to assuage your guilt - but a second time…<br />Hold yourself responsible for Autism. &nbsp;I don’t know how you sleep at night. &nbsp;Alcohol?<br />Tim Bolen</blockquote><br />Please note that The Canary Party is a PAC, not a non profit, so we don't file 990s. <br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Tim,<br />It should be very easy for you to sue me. &nbsp;My husband and I have about $800 to our name. &nbsp;Could not even afford a retainer for a lawyer. &nbsp;So you would probably get the like 5 grand in equity we have in our house, and our ten year old Honda Pilot.<br />And we could probably find an apartment for $500 dollars a month here in Maine to raise our disabled child in. &nbsp;But of course you bleeding us for a judgement for calling you out on the horrible things you are doing to families like ours would end any financing we had to actually treat, or even provide supplements for, my vaccine injured boy.<br />But yes... I fully believe that you are so evil that you would not only merely steal my intellectual property, slander me and my friends, sabotage the progress we have made struggling for a decade in the political system and do your best to ruin reputations and relationships... as you have already done all that... I believe you when you say you will sue me for telling the truth about you and your actions, and literally en my child's treatment.<br />YES Tim... I believe that you are that guy! &nbsp;You are that evil.<br />And you would be happy to do it all, to tear down ALL of the orgs that we have spent a decade building, even to replace them with NOTHING as you have done NOTHING for our community, just to win because, you "absolutely love war." &nbsp;And apparently war with the most vulnerable.<br />Sadly for me, I have not been given much of a choice in the matter. &nbsp;My commission in life has been to call out liars who hurt the weak and the disabled. &nbsp;Even if it means be being broke, scorned and even murdered.<br />So feel free to punch a poor autism mom in the face and take what little she has that she can help her child with. &nbsp; &nbsp;Because you are that guy.<br /><br />Ginger Taylor, MS</blockquote>(Should Bolen take our home because I published this piece, I will be posting a sign up sheet where you, the reader, can offer my family a guest room at your house for a week or a month at a time. &nbsp;We also have a tent and can sleep in your yard in warmer climes or in summer.)<br /><blockquote>Ginger:<br />Fortunately you wrote that piece as the Executive Director of the Canary Party… &nbsp;and now, of course, after Dan Olmstead, who also, like you, for all practical purposes, is an employee of “Ken and Barbie…” re-published your piece, the dynamic has changed.<br />Life can be fun.<br />But, what makes you think I’m going to sue you, and yours? &nbsp;My newsletter is a hundred times the size of Age of Autism…<br />Go ahead and list the “some progress” you claim to have made, please. &nbsp;I’m right here waiting. &nbsp;You people simply glom on to the “flavor of the month.” &nbsp;No plan, no thinking, no analysis – but EVERY opportunity to have your picture taken.<br />I’m right, aren’t I? &nbsp;Autism Leadership really is a “Ken and Barbie” romance drama, isn’t it?<br />Tim Bolen</blockquote>Please note Bolen's persistent and creepy interest in the sex life of our very attractive President, who is young enough to be his daughter.<br /><br /><blockquote>To: Tim Bolen<br />Subject: Re: Please remove my picture<br />You don't seem to have grasped the point of my note. &nbsp;You write:<br />"Life can be fun."<br />It is fun for you to attack families of disabled children. &nbsp;Even when they are telling the truth.<br />It is "fun" for you and you "absolutely love" it.<br />You have done zero to help us, and are having "fun" attacking and threatening law suits. &nbsp;That is the kind of awful man you are.<br />Get my point? &nbsp;Don't you think that this whole PR campaign for the Geiers might be something you want to rethink for the sake of ACTUAL autism families with ACTUAL sick and disabled kids... and, I don't know... for the sake of not being evil?<br />Ginger Taylor, MS</blockquote><br /><blockquote>Ginger:<br />I simply can not get by the expenditure of $40,000 to have your picture taken with Darrell Issa – for that’s all you got out of it. &nbsp;And you claim to be so poor…<br />I, Tim Bolen, am very much thinking of Autism families – but your “Ken and Barbie” operation stinks.<br />Want me off of your back? &nbsp;Show me a breakdown plan, with an operating schedule, to solve the problem. &nbsp; I find it hard to believe that there is no one within the Autism Leadership that does not know how to do a situational analysis.<br />The first step to solve a problem is to define it – and I am defining it. &nbsp;ALL of your leadership groups together could only draw 1,500 people to AutismOne. &nbsp;Your group is incompetent and you have no credibility. &nbsp;Wake up. &nbsp;You are problem number one.<br />Until I see a plan then get the fuck out of the way. &nbsp;Because I definitely know how to do this.<br />And, stop whining.<br /><br />Tim Bolen<br />www.bolenreport.com</blockquote>"Get the fuck out of the way?" &nbsp;Are you kidding?! &nbsp;My lifelong dream! &nbsp;I get to stop fighting this horrible fight, wipe off the blood, bandage my wounds and go pick out colleges for Chandler! &nbsp;Glory to God in the Highest! &nbsp;Tim Bolen has solved the autism epidemic!<br /><br />Can't wait for him to step in and fix it so I have nothing to do any more!<br /><blockquote>To: Tim Bolen<br />Subject: Re: Please remove my picture<br />"I simply can not get by the expenditure of $40,000 to have your picture taken with Darrell Issa"<br />Please understand where I am coming from...<br />I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK.<br />Again... you are a bad faith player. &nbsp;You are phony. &nbsp;You have done nothing for our kids. &nbsp;You get paid to talk.<br />If you believe you have the means to fix the vaccine injury epidemic in this country THEN BY ALL MEANS... FUCKING FIX IT! &nbsp;Because you have not done jack.<br />I would be THRILLED to retire from the vaccine battle that has sucked up a decade of my life. &nbsp;You started claiming you and 'your people' could fix this six months ago... and yet you have not fixed it. &nbsp;So either you can fix it, and you just aren't, which makes you an asshole who doesn't care about kids, or you can't fix it, and you are just bashing parents for no reason, which makes you an asshole.<br />Kids getting brain damage every day you sit by and fail to implement this amazing master plan you have up your sleeve but keep failing to execute.<br />If you are the magician that you claim you are, then how in the world can us lazy, ineffective, drunk, incompetent, non-credible, dupes POSSIBLY be getting in your way??<br />Looking forward to watching you fix the vaccine problem with your super powers. &nbsp;Please let us know when you have brought the evil doers to justice and healed our children.<br />Ginger Taylor, MS</blockquote><br /><blockquote>To: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'Ginger Taylor' &lt;GingerTaylor@CanaryParty.org&gt;<br />CC: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'Dan Olmsted' &lt;olmsted.dan@gmail.com&gt;, 'Kim Stagliano' &lt;krstagliano@charter.net&gt;, 'Katie Weisman' &lt;dweisman@att.net&gt;, 'Mark Blaxill' &lt;mblaxill@comcast.net&gt;, 'Jennifer Larson' &lt;jlarson@vibrant.com&gt;, 'Patti Carroll' &lt;pcarroll8@msn.com&gt;<br /><br />Ginger:<br />Three points:<br /><br />(1) &nbsp; You seem to have deleted your earlier audience from this email string, so I am adding them back. &nbsp;I wouldn’t want them to miss anything.<br /><br />(2) &nbsp; Situational Analysis is actually very simple. &nbsp;It is simply a process. &nbsp;But, for the Autism Leadership community there doesn’t seem to be any interest in actually solving problems – only showing up for an audience, whether in photos, or in person, to PRETEND that something is being done. &nbsp;As one of the Autism Leaders I respect says to me “Ask any autism organization out there, “how do you plan to end the epidemic?” and no one will give you a straight answer, because they don’t have a plan. They are pursuing dead-end goals using outdated strategies. “<br />(3) &nbsp; You all keep acting like Superman is going to fly in and save the day. &nbsp;Wake the fuck up. &nbsp;Superman is a comic strip. &nbsp;This is real life.<br />(4) &nbsp; Over the next several months you are going to think you are being boiled in oil – I have that much material – and it all comes from those you have stepped on, shit on, fucked with, marginalized, and laughed at. &nbsp;And, it is going to make really good reading. &nbsp;Plus I have REALLY GOOD investigators and researchers. &nbsp;And, a very large audience.<br />(5) &nbsp; I intend to hound all of you, continuously, until you start acting like adults. &nbsp;I hold YOU responsible for the autism problem now. &nbsp;Quit fucking around and fix the Autism problem.<br />(6) &nbsp; You certainly do NOT have the support in your own community you think you do.<br /><br />Tim Bolen<br />www.bolenreport.com</blockquote>Sadly Bolen's plan is still a secret. &nbsp;Perhaps we should pay him money for his plan? &nbsp;I wonder how he plans to unveil his plan?<br /><br />Also... on a serious note, If anyone reading this feels like they have been "stepped on, shit on, fucked with, marginalized or laughed at" by me, please let me know, because... well I think you all know how I feel about our community, and the idea that any earnest person would be hurt by something I did... I hate that. &nbsp;Please get in touch privately if you feel like I have something to apologize to you for.<br /><blockquote>Bolen,<br />I hardly know how to respond... except to say that I think you are a crazy person.<br />We are a broke and broken volunteer army.&nbsp; We are self financed.&nbsp; We are all spending our own time and money.&nbsp; If we suck at it, as you seem to think we do, then you should definitely tried to get us... fired?&nbsp; Wait... no one employs us.&nbsp; Oh... you should try to get our financing yanked... wait... we pay for all our own expenses.<br /><br />You are writing hit pieces on volunteers, Bolen!<br />Newsflash... WE ALL HATE OUR FUCKING JOBS!!!&nbsp; None of us do this by choice!&nbsp; We do it because no one else is doing it and it has to be done!&nbsp; Our kids are sick and dying!&nbsp; No one is helping us.&nbsp; YOU ARE NOT FUCKING HELPING US!<br /><br />I repeat myself... you and "your team" whomever that is, want to take over and end this then God Bless You!&nbsp; Do it!&nbsp; Make me obsolete!&nbsp; FUCKING DO IT ALREADY!&nbsp; Why in the world are you wasting precious time and resources going after a bunch of losers like us when you could win the war for us!<br />I cannot wait to NOT have this responsibility on my shoulders any more!&nbsp; No more fielding phone calls from parents trying to figure out what the hell just happened to their child... no more late nights reading research... no more funerals of my friends children to attend.<br /><br />Quit crowing about what a hero you are, and be a fucking hero!&nbsp; But thus far you have shown up for nothing, done no work, offered no help!<br /><br />But we should stop doing... what exactly?&nbsp; Cause I am not really clear on what you want us to stop doing, since you think that we should not be doing anything.<br /><br />So we should NOT have brought Issa to AO?&nbsp; Not put together testimony for MN?&nbsp; I, all by my lonesome... was fighting for and against legislation in Maine.&nbsp; But I guess I should NOT have been doing that here because you and your team were... doing it...&nbsp; I am not sure.&nbsp; Should we not be trying to get more hearings in the OGR?<br /><br />Please let me know what you want us to stop doing that is getting in your way of saving the world.&nbsp; Because if you got this, then I can go back to my career and buy a second car and pay of my school loans.&nbsp; That would be sweet.<br />Ginger Taylor, MS</blockquote><div class="moz-signature">That was the last email in that thread.<br /><br />But as a bonus!<br /><br />So part of what he started doing late last year was make up an email list he called the "Autism Leadership Council" which presumably included the leaders of our various groups, CP, GR, AO, NAA, EBCALA... don't know exactly, because he BLIND COPIES the list and uses it to troll everyone. &nbsp;He sends out these emails basically baiting people into saying mean things about each other, but no one can respond to the group only to him. &nbsp;They are usually followed by people in our community randomly forwarding the emails to one another with comments like, "Who is this guy?", "Crazy." and "WTF?"<br /><br />I got these emails for a while and I didn't know for like two months what the "Autism Leadership Council" was. &nbsp;I thought there was some new group I had not heard of.<br /><br />So yesterday he sent out this one:<br /><br /><blockquote>Subject: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The expose has just begun...<br />Date: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 08:49:26 -0700<br />From: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Autism Leadership Council &lt;jurimed2@earthlink.net&gt;<br />To: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ginger@AdventuresInAutism.com<br /><br />Autism Leadership Council<br />I want to thank all of you that commented on the recent shake-up of the<br />existing Autism leadership  or, as I point out  the lack of Autism<br />leadership.<br />This expose has just begun. &nbsp;Be assured that I, or my people, have checked<br />out every situation that all of you told me about. &nbsp;The pattern that many<br />of you described is just as you described  Im sorry to say.<br />No wonder Autism is still right here with us.<br />In conversations with many of you I have brought up a concern I have. &nbsp;It<br />is time, I think, to talk about this more openly. &nbsp;It is the simple fact<br />that there are only two answers available to the question "Why isnt the<br />Autism Community successful in any of its efforts?" &nbsp;The two possible<br />answers are (1) The current Autism leadership is venal and stupid, or (2)<br />They are a true Fifth Column.<br />So, lets talk about that.<br />I have spent hours and hours listening to many of you describe how time<br />after time, over the years, &nbsp;momentum to accomplish something begins,<br />builds, and then gets co-opted and nullified by almost always, the same<br />group of people. &nbsp;I find it hard to believe that time after time, year<br />after year, venal and stupid wins. &nbsp;After all venal and stupid is venal<br />and stupid. &nbsp;Venal and stupid doesnt consistently win.<br />I have a shocking series of Autism situation stories coming up. Stuff that<br />only some of you know, and horrible stuff none of you already know, but<br />should have been informed about.<br />Although my newsletter is primarily directed at whats called "The North<br />American Health Freedom Movement" I have developed a serious Autism<br />readership  so, my words are going to have a direct effect . &nbsp;And, about<br />time.<br />As you know, I have kept all of your comments private, and acted on them<br />privately, without revealing the source. &nbsp;That policy continues. &nbsp;Send<br />comments, and questions, to jurimed2@earthlink.net.<br />Yes, it is my intention to make change. &nbsp;I already see that happening. And,<br />I absolutely love war.<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tim Bolen<br />http://www.bolenreport.com</blockquote></div><div class="moz-signature">Still trying to figure out what the "recent shake-up of the existing Autism leadership" is that he was referring to.</div><div class="moz-signature">This particular email was followed by a couple of "WTF?" notes flying around... as apparently he is trying to save half the people on his list from the other half of the people on his list? &nbsp;All these people, of course, who have been working together and fighting together for like ten plus years. <br /><br />So ... already having lost patience with his trolling, I sent the following:<br /><br /><blockquote>From: Ginger Taylor [mailto:ginger@adventuresinautism.com]<br />Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 3:00 PM<br />To: Autism Leadership Council<br />Subject: Re: The expose has just begun...<br /><br />Bolen,<br />Take me off this stupid email list.<br />I am tired of your blind copy trolling on your made up "Autism Leadership Council"... or whatever the hell this is supposed to be.<br />Ginger Taylor</blockquote></div><div class="moz-signature">And he responded by again, calling me a drunk. &nbsp;He knows me so well.</div><div class="moz-signature"><br /></div><div class="moz-signature"><blockquote>Subject: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>RE: The expose has just begun...<br />Date: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:50:13 -0700<br />From: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>tim bolen &lt;jurimed2@earthlink.net&gt;<br />To: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'Ginger Taylor' &lt;ginger@adventuresinautism.com&gt;<br /><br />Ginger:<br />You were off my list fifteen minutes after I figured out you were “Ken and Barbie’s” suitcase carrier.<br />Oh, you mean the “email list.” &nbsp;Sure, I can do that.<br />I’m betting you are a Sauvignon Blanc consumer right? &nbsp;Or maybe a Rosé? &nbsp;Half gallon bottle a day, and no more than four bucks a bottle?<br />It won’t be YOU, then, that comes up with a plan. &nbsp;Will it?<br />Tim Bolen<br />http://www.bolenreport.com</blockquote><div class="moz-signature">So there you have it. &nbsp;This is the guy that is going to unseat me and my fellow broke ass, fried volunteers from our glorious and powerful positions of... staying up all night and reading research and testimony and writing books and articles and news letters and trying to remember the relevant points of finding standard deviation, and pounding hallways and briefing parents over the kitchen table and ranting on the internet... you know... all that super sexy stuff that us advocates get to do.<br /><br />Getting fired from fighting against the Vaccine Lobby is like getting fired from your volunteer job in the coal mine or the fox hole. &nbsp;The only thing you're gonna miss is your buddies. <br /><br />So just give Dobby the fucking sock already!<br /><br />God bless him... can't wait for him to take over this work already and end the autism epidemic! &nbsp;Then I can get back to drinking full time!! &nbsp;Now where's my box of wine!</div><div class="moz-signature"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5zXdl5rh5W0/Uc_FHRH9x7I/AAAAAAAAAPE/aDyw3WrdHtI/s400/were-all-crazy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5zXdl5rh5W0/Uc_FHRH9x7I/AAAAAAAAAPE/aDyw3WrdHtI/s1600/were-all-crazy.jpg" /></a></div><div class="moz-signature"><br />Addendum: &nbsp;Heard from as associate of the Geiers who says, "The Geiers and Tim Bolen are not working together and have not been working together for quite some time." &nbsp;Very good to hear.<br /><br />Update July 6th:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">-------- Original Message --------</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Subject: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Information for your retraction</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Date: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:14:08 -0400</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">From: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ginger Taylor &lt;GingerTaylor@CanaryParty.org&gt;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">To: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tim Bolen &lt;jurimed2@yahoo.com&gt;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">CC: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mark Blaxill, Jennifer Larson , Patti Carroll , Katie Weisman, Dan Olmsted, Kim Stagliano, Barry Segal, Diane Miller, Jerri Johnson</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Mr. Bolen,</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">We have posted the information and video on the MN hearings, along with further information on what people can do to try to prevent the expansion of the vaccine schedule in that state.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">http://www.canaryparty.org/index.php/the-news/127-call-to-action-as-minnesota-vaccine-safety-advocates-fight-proposed-rule-changes</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The effort to fight the expansion was organized by Canary Party Executive Director, Patti Carroll (she began working on this last November) and we are thrilled that so many individuals and organizations stepped up and took part.&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">I am forwarding this information to you so that you have what you need to print a retraction of your last piece on what you have described as "Autism Leadership," in which you falsely characterized us as "organizationally constipated" and erroneously claimed that, "They simply cannot, and will not, form up." &nbsp;Please note that our action alert on the matter brought over one hundred people out to challenge the changes, four times what was needed to trigger an administrative hearing before a Judge. &nbsp;We are in the process of compiling the dozens of pieces of testimony that were submitted, but that will take some more time.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">If you are interested in helping, rather than hamstringing or harming, efforts to roll back the epidemic of vaccine injury in this country, it might be a helpful choice to run this information in its entirety so that your readers can join in the effort in MN. &nbsp;It is my understanding that when presented with a similar opportunity to tell your readers about the attack on the vaccine exemptions in your home state of California during the last legislative session, rather than help spread the word on the fight that Canary Party members were putting up against the bill, you called one of our activists leading the fight and told her to be happy that the bill was not worse... and declined to tell your readers that their rights to forgo vaccines with out coercion in CA was under attack.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">I respectfully request that you let your readers know about the efforts of the Canary Party in MN, and the wonderful coordination that we had with our sister organizations, and correct the record so your readers are not left with the false impression that CP had no role in the hearings, and that Ms. Miller's organization was the only one that showed up to offer input on the vaccine expansion.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Also.. please correct the very strange accusation that the Canary Party did not say the word "vaccine" at hearings about the "vaccine program," as it is both inaccurate and nonsensical. &nbsp;(Video of our ED, Patti Carroll's testimony on the "vaccine" schedule and Pharma/MNMDH's malfeasance and conflicts on this issue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5jFrfyuYHg</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">--&nbsp;</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Ginger Taylor, MS</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Canary Party</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Facebook</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Twitter</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">818-402-9672</blockquote><div><br /></div></blockquote></div>Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7771487.post-85974852527264742452013-04-02T15:50:00.001-04:002013-04-02T15:55:15.151-04:00Happy Fucking Autism Awareness DayAs is my tradition, since getting so fucking fed up with all this "Autism Awareness While Rome Burns" crap, I am merely reposting my blogs from April 2 in years pas to illustrate that the rate climbs, society falls apart, and the&nbsp;establishment&nbsp;wants you to be fine with that. &nbsp;Giant load of horse droppings, this.<br /><br />Oh yeah... the autism rate is 1 in 50 now. &nbsp;But no worries. &nbsp;Have a blue light bulb.<br /><br />(Yeah... I don't bother removing the curse words any more. &nbsp;This is so fucked up.)<br /><br /><br />Post from 2012:<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/ht_shock_060727_ssv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/ht_shock_060727_ssv.jpg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light it up blue!</td></tr></tbody></table>So how * many years are we going to do this?<br /><br />Hey America! &nbsp;1 in 88 of your children is disabled for life (up 23% from two years ago, but no worries, just better diagnosing!)... they will cost a few million each to raise and care for, few will marry or have fulfilling careers, they will be bullied by peers, neglected by school systems, abused by caregivers and sexually assaulted by predators when you turn your back. &nbsp;Many will die from seizures, anaphylaxis, drownings, accidents, negligent&nbsp;homicides&nbsp;and be murdered long before their time, and at best, they still won't be able to fully communicate with you, the parent, who longs to have a close relationship with your baby.<br /><br />They will struggle every day in ways I never will.<br /><br />Most of this is, of course, entirely preventable, as CDC, AAP, HHS, AS et. al. knows&nbsp;<b style="text-align: center;">*</b>&nbsp;full well that this is an environmentally caused epidemic, as autism didn't even exist in the medical literature before the 1940s, but instead of actually facing that there is a society altering problem... a course of history altering problem...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Lets &nbsp;* Celebrate&nbsp;</b><b>*&nbsp;</b><b>Autism Day And</b><b>&nbsp;</b><b>Make Things&nbsp;</b><b>*&nbsp;</b><b>Blue</b>! &nbsp;</div><br />('Cause Autism Speaks needs some more cash for their&nbsp;<b style="text-align: center;">*</b>&nbsp;Park Avenue offices... the economy has been rough on them you know... Geri Dawson had her&nbsp;<b style="text-align: center;">*&nbsp;</b>salary cut from $640,000 to $435,000 for her super intense job of looking very busy and important while NOT&nbsp;<b style="text-align: center;">*</b>&nbsp;curing autism.)<br /><br />So&nbsp;<b style="text-align: center;">*</b>&nbsp;sick of this garbage. &nbsp;Off to celebrate this&nbsp;<b style="text-align: center;">*&nbsp;</b>day at a&nbsp;<b style="text-align: center;">*</b>&nbsp;IEP. &nbsp;Pretty sure that everyone in the room will be wearing party hats and telling me how thrilled they are that my child has autism, what with autism being something to celebrate and all...<br /><br /><span style="text-align: center;">* feel free to mentally reinsert the curse words that I removed before publishing. &nbsp;I am angry.</span><br /><br />Just&nbsp;reposing&nbsp;my column from last year:<br /><br /><h3> World Autism Awareness Day: Autism Exists, Let's Celebrate? Even Though It's Killing our Children?</h3>April 2, 2011<br /><br />My regular readers already know how I feel about Autism Awarness Day/Month. Everyone is aware already, how about actually doing something about it? No... instead let's just wear blue and do nothing. Except, of course, give money to Autism Speaks. Their party budget is getting low and Geri Dawson has horses to feed.*<br /><br />Anne Dachel makes the case yet again this year:<br /><br /><blockquote>I have a hard time each year with AUTISM AWARENESS DAY/MONTH. This is the Fourth Annual International Autism Awareness Day. How long are we going to pretend that all this autism is normal and acceptable? Seriously, how bad do the numbers have to get?<br /><br />A number of stories out in the news calling for the public to "celebrate" the day. Today is World Autism Awareness Day by Kristina Chew "Today, April 2, is the fourth annual World Autism Awareness Day, during which 'autism organizations around the world celebrate the day with unique fundraising and awareness-raising events.' "<br /><br />Pueblo Chieftain: Blue balloons raise autism awareness, "The baby blue balloons that Jonah and his classmates at Beulah Heights Elementary School released were to celebrate the beginning of National Autism Awareness Month. The event is celebrated each April, while the World Autism Awareness Day is today."<br /><br />Sioux Falls Argus Leader: 5 questions: Shedding light on autism, "The falls will be colored blue by lights in support of the Autism Speaks' global Light It Up Blue campaign to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day and Autism Awareness Month."<br /><br />Lufkin Daily News: Peavy students working to raise autism awareness, "Because of the prominence of the disorder in boys, blue is the official color for autism awareness and the reason the entire Peavy campus was encouraged to don the color Friday to celebrate Autism Awareness Month."<br /><br />Berkshires.com: Diversity Takes Center Stage in the Berkshires, "'We have so many people supporting this committee right now,' said MaryLee Daniels, director of the Berkshire office of the Department of Developmental Services, and committee member.<br /><br />"BFAIR, BCArc, the list goes on as to how many organizations support this initiative. We especially want people to join us in celebrating three different months of diversity. Of course, last month was Black History month. This month is Developmental Disabilities month and next month is Autism Awareness month. We have so much to celebrate here."<br /><br />What is there to celebrate?<br /><br />Lots of stories are about lighting things up in blue for autism awareness. Lots of them talk about autism being a developmental disorder affecting one percent of children whose cause is unknown. This is done without any alarm or demand for answers. We have been conditioned to accept autism as the perpetual mystery.<br /><br />As the parent of a son in his 20’s with autism, I’ve had several decades of experts knowing nothing about this disorder. Is this to be the epidemic without a cause?<br /><br />Looming in the background is the reality of what autism is doing to us. As I listen to the dire predictions about the hard economic times we're in and the need for austerity, I have to ask how in the world we're going to address the needs of the generation of children with autism about to descend on America as adults.<br /><br />Dr. Thomas Insel is the wet blanket in all this celebration, acceptance, and awareness of autism.<br /><br />He's the head of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee created by Congress to deal with with the disorder and he says that 80 percent of Americans with autism are under the age of 18. He's warned us we have to prepare for a million dependent adults "who may be in need of significant services." The IACC now calls autism "a national health emergency."<br /><br />Maybe a better name for April 2 is World Autism Emergency Day.<br /><br />Anne Dachel<br />Media editor: Age of Autism</blockquote><br />Anne is right. And I gotta wonder, exactly how long this PR BS is going to continue.<br /><br />And the biomed community isn't even being remotely polite about this any more. These are the two images that are being passed around on facebook today:<br /><br /><img src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/lightitupblackandblue.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://adventuresinautism.com/images/autismaction.jpg" /><br /><br />Last year I began a new blog. Lives Lost to Autism. I got more than a little bit sick of the blatant fear mongering of death by diseases that are NOT killing Americans, like measles, while the deaths of our children caused by their autism go unlamented and ignored by health authorities.<br /><br />Last year 10 children died of Pertussis and the response was a national campaign to get people vaccinated (both adults and children), new state vaccine mandates are being pushed through, and the press on it has been everywhere. Last year at least&nbsp;<a href="http://liveslosttoautism.blogspot.com/search/label/2010%20Deaths">27 children and adults died</a>&nbsp;as a direct result of autism, and unless you are in the autism community, or one of these deaths happened in your town, you probably never knew it. Even then, it is always an isolated incident, yes? (There were 41 reported deaths following the pertussis vaccine last year, but that is a whole other story.)<br /><br />And those 27 autism deaths are only the ones who came across my google alerts for "autism deaths" or "autism died" or "autism drowning." The test I use on how to include them is basically, "would this have happened to this this person was neurotypical?" Who knows how many more went unreported or didn't get picked up by google. I would love to quote an actual statistic on how often autism kills, or how their incidence of premature death compares to the general population, but no public health agency cares enough to track this.<br /><br />But insurance companies, whose bottom lines are effected by deaths and actually need to know if autism is deadly, won't sell life insurance policies on children with autism younger than 10, because it is not a good risk for them. See the problem there?<br /><br />Our precious ones drowned, were murdered by caretakers and loved ones, were shot by police, suffocated while being restrained, were hit by cars, burned to death in fires, died from neglect and were killed by seizures. A few of them even killed others during their own melt downs.<br /><br />Bryan Nevins, age 20, died because, on a hot day, he could not simply open the door of a van and get out. His institutional caretaker was on her cell phone and forgot about him for five hours. She is in jail now.<br /><br />Autism kills and our government could not give less of a damn.<br /><br />Autism Speaks doesn't seem to want to make that point that autism kills more than whooping cough, because then the public might actually begin to see this as a public health emergency and demand results... and then were would AS be? The party financing would dry up. Better for them to let autism linger and keep sucking up cash from suckers as they pretend to do something about it. Autism Speaks has found quite the cash cow.<br /><br />(Speaking of... Guidestar finally posted AS's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments//2009/202/329/2009-202329938-06604b6f-9.pdf">2009 tax returns</a>... they took in 45.5 million, and less than a quarter of it went to grants to do what the purported purpose of the org is, "Autism Speaks (AS) funds research into the causes, prevention, treatment and cure for autism. AS raises public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society. AS aims to bring the autism community together to urge government and the provate sector to take action to address this urgent global health crisis." Of the whole list, "autism awareness" is the only thing that I think they actually have accomplished since their inception.)<br /><br />And HHS's admissions that yes,&nbsp;<a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010/09/vaccines-dont-cause-autism-and-guns.html">vaccines CAN AND DO CAUSE AUTISM&nbsp;</a>would mean that HHS has been able to do something about this FOR YEARS and has not done it. It means that those vaccine cases can be avoided by screening for mitochondrial disorders, autoimmunity and toxicity, and treated early on if doctors were actually taught that "vaccine induced encephalopathy" exists and if recognized and treated immediately that it may minimize or even prevent many cases of autism from developing.<br /><br />And that might also mean that the people who have been sitting on this information for years, and decades, might suffer some consequences.<br /><br />But AS has decided to ignore HHS's own claims of vaccine autism causation and openly declared that everyone should&nbsp;<a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2011/02/autism-speaks-tries-to-change.html">stop talking</a>&nbsp;about the vaccine autism link.<br /><br />Better that we just "wear blue" because dealing with all that ugliness would just be too ugly.<br /><br />This is my post on "Autism Awareness" from 2008 entitled, "Insensitive Jerk Makes a Good Point". Nick sees all the signs that tell him that Autism is everywhere, but tells him nothing about what to do about it. And this was three years ago. I should try to track Nick down and see if he has figured out what he can do about it yet.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>HAPPY PHONY, BS, ARCHAIC, DESCRIPTION OF BEHAVIORS DIAGNOSIS THAT TELLS US NOTHING ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON MEDICALLY SO WE CAN KEEP IGNORING THE TOXIC CAUSES OF WHATEVER THE HELL IT REALLY IS WHILE IT CONTINUES TO KILL PEOPLE CELEBRATION DAY!</b></div><br />Make sure you wear blue, write a check to AS, vaccinate your baby, give him a dose of Tylenol, feed him GMO's and then go back to sleep. They experts are handling it for you.<br /><br /><br />Insensitive Jerk Makes a Good Point<br />By Ginger Taylor,&nbsp;<a href="http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/04/insensitive-jerk-makes-good-point.html">Adventures In Autism</a><br />APRIL 13, 2008<br /><br />Last week&nbsp;<a href="http://www.retrieverweekly.com/?module=displaystory&amp;story_id=3275&amp;format=html">Nick Jameson</a>, college smart ass, wrote a piece on his reaction to the autism awareness campaign currently under way. One currently struggling with autism might be put off by his callousness until one remembers that he is only 22 and that we were all pretty much insensitive smart asses at 22.<br /><br />I would encourage all to allow Nick a chance to grow and check back with him in 10 years or so when he is expecting his first child and see if maturity has tempered his stance.<br /><br />But what is useful from Nick, random college punk, is this reaction:<br /><br /><blockquote>For example, what is the purpose of putting up a billboard that is telling me a child is born with autism every 20 minutes? What can I possibly do other than sit in my car and mutter to myself, “Well that sucks.” Maybe if there was a cure or even ways to help prevent autism, it might make more sense to have a billboard. Then it would reinforce concepts in people’s head that they could apply later like “only you could prevent forest fires” or “don’t eat cheese before noon.” But frankly, all this billboard is really saying is, “Beware, autistic people are everywhere,” and I’m sure that isn’t the message they want to get across. We already know autism exists; give us something we can work with. If the autism front wants to put us through a year of sappy ads and TV specials, than at least make it worth the time and money and headache. Teach us something. I was on my way to New York City this weekend and every toll booth was littered with autism propaganda. Did I learn anything? No. There are more intelligent ways to get out a message to the public.</blockquote><br /><br />Does Nick know that there are successful treatments available? Does Nick know that there are some kids who are completely recover from autism? Does Nick know that there are things that he can do to prevent his own children (should he ever become soft hearted enough for a woman to agree to marry and/or procreate with him) from slipping in to autism?<br /><br />Apparently not. And that is the fault of the media who won't report the whole story.<br /><br />So our young Nick has made a great point. One that parents like me have been trying to make for years now. "Autism Exists" is a message that everyone got a few years back now. But the important message, "Autism is Treatable and Preventable" is one that the media will not share with him.<br /><br />What is it going to take for them to tell the whole story?<br /><br />In ten years, when Nick is expecting, will he have heard this message from the media? Or, like us, will he hear it from another parent on the playground after Nick Jr. is diagnosed with autism?<br /><br />Addendum: Autism Speaks had a huge chance this month to get the treatment message out and yet again, they are screwing children by with holding the important message. They certainly have the cash to do it.<br /><br />/End 2008 article<br /><br />*Ok... I actually have no idea if Geri Dawson has horses, but I do know she lives on a ranch or a farm or something, so horses... not out of the question really.Ginger Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200286625735078479noreply@blogger.com12